MILWAUKEE, Wis. – The western Wisconsin Congressional district boundaries that have made Ron Kind and Tom Tiffany shoo-ins for re-election may be in jeopardy. The director of Marquette Law School Poll, Charles Franklin, said the state Legislature drew boundaries for the Third and Seventh districts in a compromise that made the Third safe for a Democrat and the Seventh safe for a Republican. Those district lines may not be reliable moving forward, he said. The 2020 census will give the Legislature a chance to reconfigure the districts. “The issue with all redistricting is whether the trends we’ve seen over the last 10 years are really going to continue and that remains open to the future to determine,” Franklin said.
Safe districts
Ron Kind of LaCrosse, a Democat, kept his Third District seat this year with 10,000 votes. Tom Tiffany of Rhinelander, a Republican, kept his Seventh District seat by 90,000.
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