% MADISON, I'M ZAC SCHULTZ, FOR
% "HERE & NOW." >> Frederica: SO
% GOVERNOR EVERS DANCED THE
% ELECTION NIGHT AWAY AND HIT THE
% CODE FOR A VICTORY TOUR OF K-12
% SCHOOLS ACROSS THE STATE.
% STUDENTS VISITED THIS WEEK WERE
% MOSTLY TOO YOUNG TO VOTE, BUT
% OUR NEXT GUEST SAYS THE YOUTH
% VOTE THIS PAST TUESDAY WAS A KEY
% TO EVERS' WIN.
% AMBER WICHOWSKY IS PROFESSOR OF
% POLITICAL SCIENCE AT MARQUETTE
% UNIVERSITY AND DIRECTOR OF THE
% MARQUETTE DEMOCRACY LAB.
% THANKS VERY MUCH FOR BEING HERE.
% >> THANKS FOR HAVING ME.
% >> Frederica: SO YOU GOT A LOT
% OF OTHER TAKEAWAYS FROM
% TUESDAY'S ELECTION, BUT THE
% YOUTH VOTE STANDS OUT FOR YOU.
% WHY?%>> YEAH.
% ABSOLUTELY.
% THERE'S A QUESTION HEADING INTO
% TUESDAY ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THE
% HIGH TURNOUT AND DEEP CIVIC
% ENGAGEMENT SEEN AMONG GEN-Z
% VOTERS WOULD CONTINUE THIS
% ELECTION.%THERE'S POLLING DA
TA SUGGESTING
% THAT YOUNGER VOTERS WERE NOT AS
% ENTHUSIASTIC THIS TIME AROUND,
% BUT TUESDAY, WE SAW THAT IN MANY
% PLACES LIKE WISCONSIN, YOUNG
% VOTERS TURNED OUT AT RELATIVELY
% HIGH RATES.
% I SAY "RELATIVELY" BECAUSE
% YOUNGER VOTERS VOTE AT LOWER
% RATES THAN OLDER VOTES, BUT IT'S
% ESTIMATED APPROXIMATELY 27% OF
% 18-YEAR-OLDS TO 29-YEAR-OLDS
% VOTED ON TUESDAY IN STATES LIKE
% WISCONSIN, PENNSYLVANIA,
% MICHIGAN, AND THESE ARE STATES
% WHERE THERE WERE ISSUES THAT
% VERY MUCH ARE BEING DEBATED, ON
% THE BALLOT IN SOME CASES, AND
% THESE ARE ISSUES THAT ANIMATING
% YOUNG VOTERS, AND WE ARE SEEING
% THEM CONTINUE TO TURN OUT.
% >> Frederica: SPEAKING OF THE
% ISSUES, WHAT WERE THE ISSUES
% THAT BROUGHT YOUNGER PEOPLE TO
% THE POLLS COMPARED TO OLDER
% VOTERS?%>> YEAH.
% ONE ISSUE THAT STANDS OUT IS
% ABORTION.
% IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT PUBLIC
% OPINION DATA HEADING INTO
% TUESDAY, ABORTION WAS MORE
% LIKELY TO BE IDENTIFIED AS A TOP
% ISSUE FOR YOUNGER VOTERS, AND
% YOUNGER VOTERS ARE ALSO MORE
% LIKELY TO CITE CLIMATE CHANGE AS%
AN ISSUE OF PRESSING CONCERN FOR
% THEM.
% THEY ARE SLIGHTLY LESS LIKELY TO
% SAY THINGS LIKE INFLATION, AND,S
% THAT TEND TO BOTH ADVANTAGE
% REPUBLICANS AND TO ANIMATE OLDER
% VOTER, AND SO THAT THE ISSUE
% WITH GEN-Z IS NOT JUST THEIR
% RATES OF PARTICIPATION, WHICH
% THEY ARE CIVICALLY ENGAGED
% GENERATION, BUT THIS IS A
% GENERATION BREAKING FOR
% DEMOCRATS, SO THEY ARE VOTING
% 3-1 FOR DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES,
% AND THAT TOGETHER, DELIVERS
% VOTES FOR EVERS HERE IN
% WISCONSIN.%>> Frederica: SO I
F THE YOUTH
% VOTE WAS A KEY TO EVERS' WIN,
% WHY NOT LIFT BARNES TO THE SAME
% EXTENT?%>> YEAH.
% FIRST, I WANT TO QUALIFY YOUTH
% VOTE.
% THERE'S SOME REALLY IMPORTANT
% DISTINCTIONS WITHIN THE YOUTH%
VOTE.
% ONE IS THAT YOUNG VOTERS OF
% COLOR ARE MORE LIKELY TO VOTE
% DEMOCRATIC COMPARED TO THEIR
% WHITE GEN-Z VOTERS, SO THERE'S A
% RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIFFERENCE.
% WE HAVE A GENDER GAP AND A
% COLLEGE DIVIDE AS WELL.
% SO, IT IS NOT THAT JUST ALL
% YOUNG VOTERS TURN OUT, BUT IT IS
% THOSE IN COLLEGE OR COLLEGE
% EDUCATED.%NOW, IF WE LOOK AT
THE MAP HERE
% IN WISCONSIN TO UNDERSTAND WHERE
% WERE THE PLACES, AND WHERE ARE
% THE VOTERS WHO WERE SWITCHING
% THEIR TICKET, SPLITTING THEIR
% TICKETS, EXCUSE ME, BETWEEN%
EVERS AND JOHNSON?
% THESE TENDED TO BE PLACES WHERE
% REPUBLICANS DID BETTER.
% IT'S NOT A PERFECT CORRELATION,
% BUT IN PLACES OF THE STATE WHERE
% REPUBLICANS DID BETTER, YOU WERE
% MORE LIKELY TO SEE VOTERS SPLIT
% THEIR TICKETS.
% PLACES THAT HAVE BEEN THE
% DEMOCRATIC STRONGHOLDS,
% MILWAUKEE, DANE COUNTY, YOU SAW
% LESS TICKETS, BUT YOU SAW SOME,
% BUT ADD THE VOTES TOGETHER, THAT
% MEN BARNES HELPED CLOSE THE GAP,
% BUT NOT ENOUGH TO WIN ON
% TUESDAY.
% SO, 2022 IS GOING TO COME DOWN
% TO AN ELECTION WHERE WE DON'T
% HAVE A CLEAR NARRATIVE COMING
% FROM THE ELECTION.
% THERE WERE SO MANY FACTORS AT
% PLAY ACROSS BOTH THE STATE AS
% WELL AS THE COUNTRY.
% >> Frederica: WELL, AS
% DIRECTOR OF YOUR DEMOCRACY LAB,
% YOU ENGAGE WITH MARQUETTE
% STUDENTS ON THE KIND OF
% RUDIMENTS OF VOTING, LIKE, WHAT
% YOU NEED TO DO, WHERE TO GO,
% ISSUES.
% DID THAT HAVE AN IMPACT IN THE
% LAST ELECTION, HAVE YOU FOUND?
% >> ABSOLUTELY.
% SO, WE'RE STILL DIGGING INTO THE
% DATA, BUT IF YOU LOOK AT WARD
% LEVEL DATA HERE IN THE MILWAUKEE
% COUNTY, TURNOUT IN MILWAUKEE
% COUNTY WAS DOWN A LITTLE BIT
% COMPARED TO 2018.
% PLACES WHERE WE SAW TURNOUTS, IN
% SOME CASES, THE PERCENTAGE OF
% REGISTERED VOTERS INCREASED WERE
% ACTUALLY NEAR COLLEGE CAMPUSES
% INCLUDING HERE IN THE WARDS
% AROUND MARQUETTE, SO SOME OF THE
% THINGS THAT WE DO ARE JUST
% EDUCATING STUDENTS ABOUT WHAT
% THEY NEED TO VOTE, WHAT IS THEIR
% PROOF OF RESIDENCY, WHAT PHOTO
% ID DO THEY NEED, AND WHERE'S
% THEIR POLLING LOCATION?
% IN MILWAUKEE, IN A CYCLE, OUR
% POLLING LOCATIONS SHIFTED
% SOMEWHAT BECAUSE OF%REDISTRI
CTING SO WE MADE SURE
% STUDENTS KNEW WHERE THEIR
% POLLING LOCATIONS WERE.
% IF STUDENTS MOVED IN THE LAST
% TIME THEY VOTED, STUDENTS NEEDED
% TO KNOW THEY NEEDED TO
% RE-REGISTER.%YOUNG VOTERS OFT
EN HAD SOME
% ADDITIONAL HURDLES TO OVERCOME
% IN TERMS OF VOTING, AND SO WE
% WANTED TO MAKE SURE STUDENTS
% WERE INFORMED AND EMPOWERED TO
% EXERCISE VOTING RIGHTS TUESDAY.
% >> Frederica: WITH LESS THAN A
% MINUTE LEFT, YOU'VE ALSO SAID
% THAT TUESDAY'S RESULTS SHOW THIS
% IS NOT A STATE WHERE DONALD
% TRUMP CAN COME IN AND RECREATE
% 2016.
% WHY NOT?
% >> WELL, ABSOLUTELY.
% LOOK AT THE SUBURBAN COUNTIES
% OUT OF MILWAUKEE.%THESE USED
TO BE THE REPUBLICAN
% STRONGHOLDS, AND EVERS, WE SAW
% IT IN 2018, 2020, AND THE
% QUESTION WAS CHOMPING OUT ON THE
% BALLOT, AND TRUMP NOT IN THE
% RACE, WITH THOSE VOTERS CONTINUE
% TO VOTE DEMOCRATS, AT LEAST AT
% SOMEWHAT HIGHER MARGINS THAN
% HISTORICALLY, AND FOR THOSE
% REASONS INCLUDING AREAS AROUND
% GREEN BAY, THE NUMBER OF VOTES
% COMING OUT OF DANE COUNTY, OUT
% OF MILWAUKEE, THOSE SHIFTING
% MARGINS, IT'S JUST NOT A STATE
% THAT TRUMP WILL LIKELY BE ABLE
% TO WIN.
% >> Frederica: ART, AMBER