Biden’s Performance In Milwaukee County Raises Questions About Wisconsin Votes
In 2008, Barack Obama received 316,916 votes in Milwaukee County. In 2016, Hilary Clinton won only 288,822 votes there. But in 2020 Biden outperformed them both, receiving 317,251 votes countywide and besting Obama s share of the vote by nearly two points.
What makes this suspicious is that the county is shrinking. The Census Bureau population estimates show that in the last 10 years, thousands of metro Milwaukee residents have left the area for other parts of the state and country. As the Milwaukee Sentinel put it, We re lagging in a key metric that often reflects the vitality and desirability of a metro area: population growth. The City of Milwaukee, which makes up about 60 percent of the county s population, saw the number of registered voter decline by more than 26,700 from 2008 to 2020.
Curious.