Have Badger State DU'ers come up with an explanation for this?

That was the case in Ohio. Rethuglicans carefully drew districts that allowed them to control the state legislature. They also sent mostly Rethugs back to Congress even though more Democratic ballots were cast than Republican.

those lines can be thrown out in court.

The state reps and senators in my district have totally changed. Too bad, since I was looking forward to voting against the tea bag hag that used to represent me.

n/t

State Senators & Assemblycritters were elected from gerrymandered districts. A majority of the votes cast for state offices were for Democrats, but the Dem votes were sorta "caged"; the Dems who won did so by overwhelming majorities, while the Republicans were elected by closer votes. That's how gerrymandering works.

Here's a spreadsheet I put together for the US HOuse of Representatives that shows what happened:

It is going to take at least a decade to take back the State Houses.

And if Walker gets his way with VoterID and killing same day registration it may be much longer.

Walker won the recall (not)

then we elect Baldwin and Obama. And the math don't add up.

Then there are the metro and collegiate contingents that account for statewide majorities in national elections.

We are schizo and it is heartbreaking in the land of Muir, Leopold, Nelson and Lafollette that our other big name politician, Joe McCarthy, has like-minded descendants still barging into our electoral results and finding favor in many pockets of the state.

The partial, yet strong, success of the Regressives is due to the McCarthy residue fertilized with plentiful Koch Cash and latent racism due to our ethnic (German, Polish) heritage that still flavors politics, though receding as the elders and their prejudices pass.

Those prejudices remain, but in a more "dog whistle" form, such as exurban, private religiously schooled Ryan complaining about the "urban" turnout.

It is a hunting state that seems to equate the second amendment with the hunting culture - a HUGE topic here at election time.

We once were the home of "Sewer Socialists" who took care of infrastructure and the Commons with tolerance for all. Now we are squandering that legacy with the likes of Walker.

And, of course, Kindergarten was started here and now the state is taking the wrecking ball to Public Education.

I must stop - a sad topic.

I live in a rural area with poor media coverage. No daily newspapers, 5 weeklies struggling to survive in a polarized world. High School AV club doing the TV news.

There were a stunning number of voters in my county who filled in circles for top ticket Dems and state legislative Pukes. Neighboring county, too, even with a daily Gannett rag kissing puke ass.

Door knocking has completely proven itself a waste of time in the last two years. With the Gerrymandering we're stuck with now, a puke will have to get caught screwing a pooch to get unelected, and even then it's doubtful in some districts.

The good news is that Wanker is probably shitting bricks about now. Obama and Baldwin won by good margins against candidates as sleazy and nasty as he is. If he hasn't figured out the tide is turning, he ain't too bright.

redistricting maps...