This morning when I got up, the first thing I looked at was how the Supreme Court race in Wisconsin turned out. I could tell by the big Republican turnout yesterday that she was going to lose. My second thought was, did Bernie’s one day Democrats fail to vote in the Supreme Court race?
First I looked at the total votes.
DEMOCRATIC
Presidential candidates
3,848 of 3,852 precincts reporting
|
Votes |
Pct. |
Clinton |
429,758 |
43.1% |
Sanders |
563,127 |
56.5% |
REPUBLICAN
Presidential candidates
3,848 of 3,852 precincts reporting
|
Votes |
Pct. |
Cruz |
527,064 |
48.3% |
Kasich |
153,514 |
14.1% |
Trump |
383,598 |
35.1%
|
WIS. SUPREME COURT
Candidates
3,848 of 3,852 precincts reporting
|
Votes |
Pct. |
Bradley |
1,008,970 |
52.4% |
Kloppenburg |
917,357 |
47.6% |
Totals
Dems 992,885
Rebpugs 1,064,176
Now here’s the percentage of their party votes each judicial candidate got:
Bradly 94.8%
Kloppenburg 92.4%
Ok, we can see that it apparently looks like that not as many Dems voted for their Judicial candidate as Repubs did. My first instinct was that many Bernie supporters didn’t vote for the judicial candidate. So it seems the best way to tell would be to look at some Sanders counties and see if they are worse than the state average.
Dane County % of Dem vote
Clinton |
|
61,072 |
|
37.3% |
|
Sanders |
|
102,585 |
|
62.6%
|
Kloppenburg |
|
156,406 95.5%
|
Eau Claire
Clinton 7,323 35.8%
Sanders 13,058 63.9%
Rock County
Clinton 11,248 39.2%
Sanders 17,337 60.4%
Kloppenburg 26538 92.8%
So in these 3 counties, which Senator Sanders won big, the percentage of the Democratic vote that Kloppenburg got, was at or even slightly above the state average.
Now let’s take a look at some of Clinton’s better counties (which weren’t many).
Sheboygan County
Clinton 7,175 45.4%
Sanders 8,537 54.0%
Kloppenburg 14,774 94.0%
Polk County
Clinton 2,921 53.7%
Sanders 2,395 44.0%
Kloppenburg 5,069 95.3%
Chippewa County
Clinton 4,021 43.8%
Sanders 5,114 55.7%
Kloppenburg 9,285 101.6%
Now that 101% means there was some pretty substantial crossover from Republicans that crossed over to vote for Kloppenburg.
I certainly didn’t look at every county in Wisconsin and just kind of chose counties I thought were representative of the ones I looked at.
But now let’s look at Milwaukee county:
Clinton 98,002 51.8%
Sanders 90,890 48.0%
Kloppenburg 148,762 78.7%
Whoa!! What in the world is that all about?!
If the Democrats in Milwaukee county had voted in the Supreme Court race like the Democrats in the rest of the state, it would have added about 17000 more votes for Kloppenburg and brought the state average a little closer to the Republican average. It certainly wouldn’t have pushed Kloppenburg to victory, but 17000 votes can make a big difference in a lot of close races.
So what happened in Milwaukee? There’s something fundamentally wrong there. I’m pushing away my conspiracy hat, but this kind of looks like something the Democrats need to look at.
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