On May 1, 2011, at 1:09 PM, // ravi wrote:
> That’s the thing isn’t it? The swing is not from some milquetoast corporatist credentialist like Obama to a militarist nationalist corporatist like McCain. It’s from fairly progressive/leftist people like Wellstone/Feingold to a Tea Party union-busting-at-any-cost’er like Walker.
Joel Rogers explains Wisconsin politics as a struggle between an urban, social democratic base in Milwaukee and Madison allied with "progressive" capital-intensive dairy farmers against a very right-wing rural population (ex the dairy farmers). They're about even in numbers, therefore the swings back & forth by small margins.
Doug