I was campaigning in Wisconsin in the last few weeks of the election mainly based in La Crosse, St.Croix and Eau Claire. Looking at the county results i do get really frustrated looking at counties that we can win with a little campaigning - this i believe needs to be done early in the campaign. go and met the communities in early may/june.
If you take the county map and look east from taylor, price and clark these are the results of the counties that the republicans won..
St.Croix - is difficult to win difference of 3895
Kerry =18,784 = 44.9%
Bush = 22,679 = 54.2%
Polk - difference of 922
Kerry 47.5% 11,173
Bush 51.5% 12,095
Burnett - difference of 244
Kerry 48.3% 4,499
Bush 50.9% 4,743
Barren - difference of 334
Kerry 48.9% 11,696
Bush 50.3% 12,030
Washburn - difference of 57
Kerry 49.2% 4,705
Bush 49.8% 4,762
Sawyer - difference of 540
Kerry 46.7% 4,411
Bush 52.4% 4,951
Rusk - difference of 165
Kerry 48.2% 3,820
Bush 50.3% 3,985
Chippawa - difference of 699
Kerry 48.3% 14,751
Bush 50.6% 15,450
Clark - difference of 1000
Kerry 46.1% 6,966
Bush 52.7% 7,966
So 9 counties (take away st.croix) that the democrats lost in northwestern wisconsin by a grand total of 3961 votes. little defeats in a county show that they add up. this is true for minnesota and iowa.
the democrats need to get organised here and challenge these counties. if they could overturn these nine counties the state would be alot harder for republicans to win. we cant just rely on dane, rock and milwaukee coz one day we are going to get burnt.
You were mypalfish
