Salon.com > Battleground State http://www.salon.com Mon, 20 May 2013 16:29:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Wisconsin could hinge on a single county http://www.salon.com/2012/10/25/wisconsin_could_hinge_on_a_single_county/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/25/wisconsin_could_hinge_on_a_single_county/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:46:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13051781 The American Prospect On a chilly evening in early October, Jay Ferus stood waiting in the Family Dollar store's parking lot in Racine, Wisconsin. By the time I pulled up, Ferus was already an hour into his 4-9 p.m. shift as a canvasser for Working America, the labor group he represents. A chipper 49-year-old with black rectangular glasses and salt-and-pepper hair, he spends most of his time traversing the suburbs of Milwaukee, but on this Wednesday he'd driven an hour south to Racine. He held an iPad on top of a clipboard thick with sheets of paper listing the reasons why Working America had endorsed Barack Obama for president and Tammy Baldwin for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat. "Who stands with America's working families?" blared a headline at the top of each side of the flyer.

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