Heartland Signal: 'Polls tighten in sharply divided Wisconsin: Breaking down races for governor and senator in this crucial swing state'
Heartland Signal: 'Polls tighten in sharply divided Wisconsin: Breaking down races for governor and senator in this crucial swing state'
There's less than 55 days until the election and the races are heating up. We take a closer look at the polling in races between Mandela Barnes and Ron Johnson and Tony Evers and Tim Michels.
The Recombobulation Area is a six-time Milwaukee Press Club award-winning weekly opinion column and online publication written and published by veteran Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer. Learn more about it here.
The Marquette University Law School Poll is the state’s gold standard of measuring where voters stand, so here at The Recombobulation Area, we take a close look at each new poll.
In this 50-50 “toss-up” state, races for governor and senator are extremely close. We break down those races, take a closer look at the gender gap in the state, the continued overwhelming poll results on abortion rights and how Wisconsin voters view Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
Let’s recombobulate.
Read the full column here.
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ICYMI: The Recombobulation Area hosted an event this week with Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley.
The event was sponsored by Fix Development and 4th Dimension Sobriety. If you’re interested in getting involved with a future event with The Recombobulation Area, please email therecombobulationarea@gmail.com.
If you weren’t able to make the event, it’s available for subscribers as a podcast here.
THE RECOMBOBULATION AREA, ON THE AIR: I am again guest hosting the local news program “Connect MKE.” Episodes will air this weekend on CW18 (Sunday, 8:30 a.m.) and My24 Milwaukee (Saturday, 6 a.m.).
Watch and listen to last week’s episode here:
I also joined Kristin Brey on As Goes Wisconsin this week. You can listen to that segment as a podcast here.
ONE MORE THING: Our friends at Tone Madison are working to raise $10,000 to help continue their efforts to grow their independent media outlet. Wisconsin needs more independent media and Tone does incredible work. If you can, do show them some support. Go here for more.
Dan Shafer is a journalist from Milwaukee who writes and publishes The Recombobulation Area. He previously worked at Seattle Magazine, Sle Business Magazine, the Milwaukee Business Journal, Milwaukee Magazine, and BizTimes Milwaukee. He’s also written for The New York Times, The Daily Beast, Heartland Signal, Belt Magazine, WisPolitics, and Milwaukee Record. He’s won 13 Milwaukee Press Club Excellence in Journalism Awards. He’s on Twitter at @DanRShafer.
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