'The Fall Of Wisconsin' Puts The State's 2016 Presidential Choice In Context

The election night map in 2016 brought many surprises, but none more stunning than Wisconsin's switch from blue to red – marking its first vote for a Republican presidential ticket since 1984.

Michigan and Pennsylvania also ended long Democratic streaks that night. But the Badger State was the big shock, because Barack Obama had carried it twice by comfortable margins and Hillary Clinton had led all through the Fall in the most respected statewide poll.

President Trump himself has since seemed fixated on his Wisconsin win, if fuzzy on the details. Last month, while visiting Wisconsin, Trump claimed to have been the first Republican to win there since Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s. (In fact, the GOP's presidential nominee won the state five times between Ike and Trump: Reagan in 1984 and 1980 and Richard Nixon in 1972, 1968 and 1960.)

But the president