Wisconsin Democrats rode a wave of national discontent Tuesday to win complete control of the state Legislature for the first time in more than a decade.
With a sitting Democratic governor in Jim Doyle, the stage looks set for the party to dominate state politics.
Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Katherine Cramer Walsh put it a bit more bluntly:
“It’s more of an anti-incumbent thing than a pro-Democratic Party thing. Such a huge part of that was just (a mentality of) throwing the bums out,” she said.