^WI is a Toss-up state in midterm years and a pretty Democratic state at the presidential level. If WI is such an elastic state, why did Thommy Tompson have no crossover appeal at all in 2012? Also, this:
Hardly a sign of elasticity.
Thommy Thompson didn't run a campaign anything near to the effect of when he was governor. He was a huge disappointment, and in today's terms of polarization, he wasn't going to get much farther than Mitt Romney anyway. If you look at some of the rural counties, Baldwin actually outperformed Obama in many of them, but again southern Wisconsin is nearly exactly the same. To address the Walker elections, Walker had to have a lot of cross-over voters from 2008. He took them, and he held them gaining not much else over his elections. Its not like
all the people who sit out in midterms are Democrats, and to back up that assertion is an exit poll showed that in the 2012 recall 18% of Walker voters planned on voting for Obama. Its sounds crazy, but its the truth.
I really understand where you're coming from, Wisconsin looks very inelastic on outside, but its really average as a whole.