Wisconsin Votes! Whitney Gets a New Shirt!

Thanks to Wisconsin's liberal voting laws we not only have one of the highest voter turnout rates in the country (screw you Minnesota) but we also just have a lot of elections in general. Today was our non-partisan primary. Here I am on my way over to The Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church to vote for a State Superintendent of Public Instruction and a County Circuit Court Judge:

It was also the day that our new L.S.O. shirts came in.

Maps! Coloring! Voting!

Today I present to you a map. One might be tempted to call it a mash-up, but that would imply that there was something technological about. Or maybe that Google was somehow involved. Neither of those is true. What it is is a map of the election wards in Madison (plus Monona, Shorewood Hills, and Maple Bluff), color coded by the percent of the Democratic vote Obama got yesterday, according to the Dane Country Clerk's Office. There's nothing really surprising about this map, except maybe that Obama actually won every single ward in the metro area, and that Maple Bluff was so heavily Obama-ian. I expected more establishment out of them.

I wish I could have cross-referenced this data with voter turn out percentages for Tuesday. Especially since Tommy claims to live in the most civically active ward in the city [state], and I'd like proof of that before I believe him. Unfortunately, that information proved impossible to obtain.