Christine Schwartz, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, shared data with me on trends in the educational profile of heterosexual married couples from 1940 to 2020. According to her calculations, in 2020, American husbands and wives shared the same broad level of education in 44.5 percent of heterosexual marriages, down from more than 47 percent in the early 2000s.
People are being asked to avoid the area around East Campus Mall after a man was reported to have a knife. At 11:59 p.m. Sunday, University of Wisconsin-Madison sent out a WiscAlert that the suspect was in the area of 105 East Campus Mall.
When it comes to voting in Wisconsin, the rules for college students can be a bit complicated.
For one thing, voters in Wisconsin are required to provide an acceptable form of photo identification, and that could include a student ID. But not every student ID is allowed.
In a social media post Friday morning, Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Musk appears to be crossing a line.
“Earlier payments were for registering, but this is for voting,” Burden said. “A clear violation of the state’s election bribery law.”
Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the university’s Elections Research Center, said he believes Schimel has made Trump the centerpiece of his campaign because Republicans have fared poorly in Wisconsin when Trump is not on the ballot.
“Schimel hitching himself to the Trump train looks like the tactic they believe is necessary to reel in less attentive voters who take note of Trump, even if it comes with the risk of blowback,” Burden said.
Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, credited the state Democratic Party for the large number of out-of-state residents donating to Crawford.
“The Democratic Party of Wisconsin established a national profile over the past five years and has attracted contributions from a network of progressive donors all over the country,” Burden said. “Touting Crawford’s campaign has definitely brought contributions her way.”
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“Earlier payments were for registering but this is for voting. A clear violation of the state’s election bribery law,” Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin Madison, wrote in a post on X.
Bryna Godar, staff attorney with the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School, said Musk changing the terms of his offer “puts the payments and attendance at the rally back into a gray area under Wisconsin law.”
“The question is whether the offers are ‘in order to induce’ people to vote or go to the polls, and there can be arguments made on either side of that question,” she said in an email.
Robert Yablon, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, noted that the huge spending in the race was only possible because of the state’s loose campaign finance laws. People in Wisconsin can donate unlimited amounts to state parties, which can pass that money on to candidates. There are also very weak anti-coordination laws between independent expenditure groups and campaigns.
“You would hope that in a judicial race, you might have different candidates – maybe they have different ideologies or philosophies, different ways that they talk about the law, but it’s shared ground that they believe that the judiciary ought to operate independently from other branches, ought to check those branches,” he said.
“That ought to energize Democrats that there’s still some life left in the party, despite them being kind of at sea in Washington,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor and director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
