Partisan chasm especially deep in Wisconsin

[hue]

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (jsonline)

Gov. Walker's approval rating from Republican voters was 92% in a Wisconsin survey last month by Public Policy Polling.

His approval rating from Democratic voters was 9%.

Invert those two numbers and you get something very close to President Obama's ratings in Wisconsin: 93% approval from Democrats, 4% approval from Republicans.

In both cases, the partisan divide is bigger than anything Public Policy Polling has recorded for governor and president in the 40-plus states where it has polled since 2011.

Wisconsin is not just a microcosm of the red-blue divide among America's voters.

It may be the premier example.

And the phenomenon goes beyond voters' attitudes toward Walker and Obama.

Consider House budget chairman Paul Ryan, the GOP's 2012 vice presidential candidate.

Read more: http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/hedgj-hedgj-hedgj-hedgj-ng9343i-196781801.html

[dpbrown]

1. Poor Wisconsin

I grew up there but I'm glad I don't live there now.

[southernyankeebelle]

2. I always thought highly of WI and MN. I always thought the people there was

very intelligent. However, with the likes of Ryan, Walker and Bachmann has sure changed my mind. I can't believe people in WI would agree with what Ryan wants to do with health insurance, and social security that they would approve of this situation. It is going to hurt the middle, lower and working class people badly. We all need to make the effort and pass the word. We must break through that bubble they live in.

[VPStoltz]

4. I grew up there - and in MI - and I'm now embarrassed of both.

[southernyankeebelle]

5. I just can't get over it. Do you still have family there? What do they think?

[yurbud]

3. now if Democrats would actually campaign and govern based on that divide

[Evasporque]

6. Wisconsin conservative are of three types:

1. Religious morons
2. Right Wing nutjob gun crazies
3. no tax selfish wealth mongers.

Sprinkle a healthy amount racists and bigots and you have the Mark Belling/Charlie Sykes/Rush Limbaugh a.m. radio Republican.

Any conservative that doesn't fit that mold voted for Obama....

[MillennialDem]

7. Yep which pisses me off when here at DU people say WI deserves what it gets

[MillennialDem]

8. My partner is from here, I am from California. I really want to move back or somewhere more liberal