Wisconsin set the state record Friday for the number of votes cast before Election Day, with the number still expected to grow. More than 775,000 early votes, or 96 percent of the total early votes sent, have been received by election officials so far.
College affordability has become a hot-button issue this campaign, with both candidates spending more time talking about reducing rising student debt loads and tuition rates than President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney did four years ago. Part of that attention is due to the rise of Bernie Sanders’ campaign during the Democratic primary.
In an election season dominated by doom and gloom about workers and the economy, some of this pessimism may ring true in Wisconsin, according to a new report by UW researchers. In the report, the researchers from UW-Madison and the UW Extension said Wisconsin is faced with a disproportionate loss of talent caused in part by a low domestic immigration rate of people with college degrees. In terms of educational attainment, Wisconsin has a strong high school graduation rate compared to both neighboring states and the rest of the country.
UW-Madison undergraduate Selina Armenta has lived in Wisconsin for most of her life, moving with family from Mexico during her childhood.
In a refreshing bout of civil discourse missing from the presidential race, the Wisconsin candidates for U.S.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan spoke to an intimate crowd of College Republicans Friday at the Madison Masonic Temple to explain why liberal progressivism is failing the country and to answer pre-submitted questions.
Taking the stage without shaking hands, the candidates in the second presidential debate started off red-hot as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump made their case for why the other is unfit for the presidency.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., visited Madison Friday in an effort to rally younger voters around Democratic Senate candidate Russ Feingold. Feingold, who is locked in a tight race with incumbent Republican Ron Johnson, appeared hand-in-hand with Warren in front of a packed crowd at the Overture Center. “I’m here because Russ ... is a champion of justice,” Warren told the assembled crowd of roughly 1,000. While the event was intended to promote early voting, the two also took aim at Johnson and Republican nominee Donald Trump. “The Ronald and the Donald show—don’t let it happen,” Feingold implored, with Warren calling the business mogul a “sleazeball.” “This is now Donald Trump's party, and the party now reflects Donald Trump," Warren said. Little has changed in the Senate race since the last time Warren visited campus a year ago.
Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump by four points in Wisconsin, 43 percent to 39 percent, according to a recent CBS News poll. Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson is also polling at 4 percent of eligible voters in Wisconsin, and 11 percent are still undecided.
ELKHORN, Wis.—Fallout from a lewd tape showing comments made by Republican nominee Donald Trump continued Saturday morning, with many Republican lawmakers reneging on their endorsement of the business mogul.
A federal judge ordered an investigation calling into question a possible state violation after a homeless man received voter ID misinformation at the Madison Division of Motor Vehicles. Zack Moore, 34, recently relocated to Madison and went to the DMV Sept.
Each week, The Daily Cardinal will be taking a look at down-ballot races throughout the state. This week we look to the 32nd Senate district in La Crosse where Republican Dan Kapanke and Democrat Jennifer Shilling are locked in a rematch. Republican candidate Dan Kapanke is challenging Democratic incumbent Jennifer Shilling in a rematch for state Senate District 32.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will make a campaign stop in Waukesha Wednesday, according to his website. Trump will hold a rally in the Waukesha County Expo Center, according to the campaign.
State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, continued to emphasize the need for the UW System to bring more conservative speakers to its campuses in an interview on WISN Sunday. Vos says he has gotten some pushback from liberals, but thinks there is an overall consensus on the issue. “I think by and large most people recognize that we have a problem in higher education with trying to foster ideas on both sides of the aisle,” Vos said in the interview.
Each week, The Daily Cardinal will be taking a look at down-ballot races throughout the state.
Several UW-Madison students sat down with U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., Sunday in Union South to plan how to best unite students for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton before the 2016 election.
Gov. Scott Walker has indicated a desire to continue a freeze on in-state tuition at UW System schools, according to a letter released to state agencies last month. In the document, Walker said his 2017-’19 biennium budget proposal would freeze tuition to help preserve the accessibility of higher education in the Badger State “To build on our commitment to student success, we must extend the tuition freeze,” Walker wrote in the July 25 letter.
PHILADELPHIA—U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., reflected on her experience this week at the Democratic National Convention, where the party officially nominated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the country’s first female presidential nominee.
PHILADELPHIA—A group of delegates to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders staged a walk-out at the Wells Fargo Center and held a sit-in at the media center next door. Police had to create a human wall around the pavilion in order to stop more protesters from going inside.
Gov. Scott Walker announced Friday that he would appoint Milwaukee attorney Daniel Kelly to the state Supreme Court, filling the vacancy created by Justice David Prosser's retirement at the end of the month. The announcement was made at an afternoon event at the Capitol, with Chief Justice Patience Roggensack and Walker.
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