Barry Burden
@bcburden
Professor of political science at UW-Madison. Director of Elections Research Center. First gen college grad. Native Ohioan. barryburden.info
Tiffany’s congressional voting record is pretty far to the right & his running mate is a real social conservative madison.com/news/state-r...
A reminder from the 2016 pres primary: Milwaukee was the only county where Clinton beat Sanders.
Looking like Hong hit her high in early summer, plateaued, & won’t blow past her poll standings. The question is whether Crowley has caught her.
First full county (Jefferson) is in and it’s a dead-heat between Crowley & Hong. State Navigate poll had Hong ahead everywhere.
Fairly steady turnout at my polling place despite the rain Rain is causing some smearing & damp ballots that jam the scanner Two voters had borderline apparel (“Godzilla for president” & “unapologetically pro-democracy”)
Order of the 7 Dem candidates on the Wisconsin gubernatorial primary ballot
I keep getting this social media ad that always looks to me like Tiffany is backing a 400 year tax hike
Just coming back from vacation and assume nothing alarming happened in our politics while I was away
Alito thinks legislative maps are made by a computer and which districts white and minority voters are placed in is essentially random
Dems might win the Senate this year but have entirely new leadership in 2027. When has that happened before?
The US is off the regressions line: an extremely high income country where residents think politics need big changes www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
I know the business in Iran is serious but I see this with every mention of a minesweeper
Replacing the previous figure, which mistakenly omitted 2020 & underestimated 2016 when the prez primary drove up turnout (and Kloppenburg was again a candidate)
Voter turnout in the WI Supreme Court election fell from last year’s record high, but still one the highest since the 2011 nail-biter between Kloppenburg & Prosser
Taylor’s romp is not merely the result of high D turnout in Madison & Milwaukee. Liberals gained the most in red, rural counties.
Full-throated support of US action in Iran & criticism of Europe for standing down. A confusing message about the western alliance being stronger than ever. Also knocks on Trump for tariffs, pursuing Greenland, not anticipating Iran response, & not backing Ukraine.
Waiting to see Boris Johnson speak at UW-Madison. Music is pumping like a campaign event. One of the most male-heavy audiences I’ve seen on campus.
Why does this puzzle keep doing this? www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/d...
Employment won’t be the only factor in the midterms, but the jobs drop off starting with Trump will be inconvenient for the GOP this fall
Oklahoma law says appointee to Mullin’s vacated Senate seat must swear not to run for it later. Probably unenforceable.
Trump approval rating is ranging wildly from 36% to 50% — not only because of diverging samples of adults versus reg/likely voters
There might never be another Spelling Bee that contains a president’s name #PresidentsDay
Why do younger people report the highest levels of consumer confidence?
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Trump says some states can’t be trusted to run their own elections. The 3 states with the worst election administration performance in 2020 & 2022 were bright red AR & MS elections.mit.edu#/data/rank