Wisconsin has remained a closely divided state that gets an outsized share of attention from the national political parties, evenan outsized share of attention from the national political parties, even as other once-purple states have tipped more reliably in one direction — Colorado toward the Democrats and Ohio toward Republicans, for example.
“I don’t think there’s been another state that has stayed at that kind of knife-edge point for so long,” said Barry Burden, a political science knife-edge point for so long,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor and director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.