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Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 11:45 Written by rslcpol Monday, 2 August 2010 01:27
From JSOnline:
If this is a year of opportunity for victory-starved Republicans, no state in the country offers more bounty than Wisconsin, where an entire Democratic power structure is in peril this fall.
Wisconsin is one of two states in the United States where Republicans have a plausible chance to take away from Democrats a governorship, both chambers of the Legislature, a U.S. Senate seat and one or more House seats. (Colorado is the other).
“There’s nothing that’s not on the table,” says state GOP chair Reince Priebus. “My expectation is this is going to be the biggest Republican year in the history of Wisconsin.”
That is far from guaranteed, of course. The odds of winning all those contests are much longer than winning any of them individually.
But two factors have created at least the possibility of a once-in-a-generation shift in the balance of partisan power in Wisconsin.
The first and most important is a political climate of public discontent, economic pessimism and sagging approval ratings for Congress and Democratic President Barack Obama.
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