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This project is a joint effort between the Examiner and our sibling sites, the Michigan Advance, the Ohio Capital Journal, and the Pennsylvania Capital-Star. From now until November, our four sites in the States Newsroom network will be taking an in-depth look at the issues, the people and the policies that matter to voters in the four states that could well determine who wins the White House.

U.S. President Donald Trump stands in the colonnade as he is introduced to speak to March for Life participants and pro-life leaders in the Rose Garden at the White House on January 19, 2018 in Washington, DC. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images

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Anti-Trump ad by Republican group airs in Wisconsin

Ruth Conniff - May 12, 2020

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Tough times on the farm

Ruth Conniff - March 24, 2020

Election 2020 art image with flying ballots, donkey, elephant

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Electoral math for toss-up Wisconsin in a “disorienting” week

Melanie Conklin - March 13, 2020

This week’s Cook Political Report shows Wisconsin to be where we’ve come to expect our state to be for the 2020 presidential election —...

Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden addresses a crowd at a town hall at Clinton College in Rock Hill, S.C. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

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After Super Tuesday, a brokered convention? With no clear delegate winner,...

Ruth Conniff - March 3, 2020

What happens if no clear winner emerges from the primaries and the surviving Democratic presidential candidates go all the way to the convention with...

Democratic presidential candidates (L-R) former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), former Vice President Joe Biden, former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) participate in the Democratic presidential primary debate on Feb. 19, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Who do voters in Wisconsin — or Pennsylvania or Michigan —...

Melanie Conklin - March 1, 2020

In a week with a rise in confirmed cases of coronavirus and a sharp drop in the stock market, along with a tragic mass...

Close-up of American Dollar banknotes with stethoscope

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Report blames gerrymandering for blocking Medicaid expansion

Erik Gunn - February 25, 2020

Partisan gerrymandering of legislative districts has been blamed for many things — polarization, voter suppression and more. A new report issued Monday by the liberal...

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Outlook on manufacturing jobs murky but losses appear stemmed Tariffs have...

Erik Gunn - February 21, 2020

Donald Trump’s vow in 2016 to revive Rust Belt manufacturing may get some of the credit for his razor-thin surprise victory in Wisconsin, but...

Commentary

What Wisconsin could show the nation

Ruth Conniff - February 10, 2020

Editor’s note: Today, together with our sister publications in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania we are kicking off a series of news stories and commentary to bring...