Walker’s Two Different Worlds Revealed: 3 Wealthy Counties vs. 32 Counties.

Dave Zweifel, editor emeritus of The Capital Times, dissected the Walker idea of “two different worlds” in Wisconsin and came away with one conclusion; it’s the moneyed elite verses everyone else.

Cap Times: So Scott Walker believes that the Kloppenburg-Prosser Supreme Court race shows that there are “two different worlds” in Wisconsin, one driven by Madison and one driven “by everybody else out across the majority of the rest of the state of Wisconsin.” It’s crazy Madison versus the rest of Wisconsin, where Walker’s “real” people live and vote for good Republicans like him.  

Let’s take a closer look at that “different world” label… 

Douglas and Ashland counties both went for Kloppenburg by 70-30 percent, while Bayfield delivered a solid 67 percent in her camp. Rock County, the home of Republican wunderkind Paul Ryan, gave Kloppenburg a 60-40 showing, as did Portage County and the Stevens Point area. Rural counties like Iowa and Crawford also delivered Kloppenburg a roughly 60 percent vote. La Crosse and Eau Claire counties were 59 and 58 percent in her camp respectively. Almost all of western Wisconsin was solidly in her camp … 32 counties solidly supported Kloppenburg, while several others that went for Prosser did so by narrow margins. 

That “different world” Walker really likes: 

Those Milwaukee-area suburbs for which droves of Milwaukeeans famously fled their city, giving the state a true taste of urban sprawl where government is universally reviled and taxes are anathema. And for heaven’s sake, don’t put any public transportation out here — you never know who might show up. 

You think Dane County was another world with its 73-27 vote for a hometown candidate? How about 73-27 for Prosser in Waukesha County … Washington County 75-24, Ozaukee County 72-28? These are the people in Walker’s other world, who happily send bright lights like James Sensenbrenner to Washington and Glenn Grothman to Madison to represent them. 

Yup, Walker is right. There definitely is a different world out there. It’s just not as big as he’d like it to be.