Wisconsin helped President-Elect Barack Obama capture the White House in this historic election. In the state, Democrat Steve Kagen prevailed in hotly contested Congressional race,the Democrats held on their Senate majority and they could be gaining the assembly as well.Joe Heim, a political science professor in U-W La Crosse, analyses the changing political scene in the state for Terry Bell…
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