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UW experts say voter turnout led to Walker’s election victory By Andrew Hahn THE DAILY CARDINAL
Gov. Scott Walker beat expectations with a wide and early win over Democrat Mary Burke in Tuesday’s election, and experts say lower-than-anticipated voter turnout was the key to his victory. Statewide voter turnout ended up at 54 percent, falling short of the nearly 58 percent turnout Wisconsin saw in Walker’s 2012 recall election against Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, according to a report from the state Government Accountability Board. The agency had predicted 56.5 percent turnout in
October, roughly 100,000 voters higher than went to the polls on Election Day. “While 54.25 percent is a smaller turnout than the 57.8 percent in the recall election of 2012, it was still a record turnout for a regular gubernatorial election,” GAB Director Kevin Kennedy said. The GAB reported nearly 50 percent turnout after the 2010 midterm elections. David Canon, chair of UW-Madison’s political science department, said the most recent statewide polls predicted this would boost Walker’s margin of victory. “The last [Marquette
University Law School] poll actually came close to nailing it,” Canon said. “The first interpretation [of the election results] is that the electorate actually did change in the last week of the election … The thing that changed was Republicans said they were more likely to vote.” The final Marquette poll estimated Walker was favored by 50 percent of likely voters to Burke’s 43 percent, the largest margin since polling began for the 2014 election. The poll also found 93 percent of Republicans were “certain to vote,” while
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Robin Vos calls for changes to UW budget By Annie Schoenfeldt
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UW-Madison junior Brandon Jaeger competes in his first Madison Marathon early Sunday morning.
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State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester and state Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, addressed changes they would like to see made to the UW System budget in a Wednesday press conference. The legislators took questions from the press after they outlined the Republican agenda for the state Assembly and Senate. The two said their party would focus on education, specifically in the UW system. Vos stressed the importance of ensuring that the money in the UW System’s budget benefits students. “Part of the things that we’ve put in our forward agenda ... is to make sure that people who are in the UW system are actually teaching, and they’re not using their time for purposes that don’t directly impact the lives ... of students,” Vos said at the press conference. Vos, a former member of the system’s Board of Regents, said not all research at UW System schools is worth the state funding those programs receive. He added that he envisions a public education system that produces students going into jobs
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Marathoner fights cramps to finish race By Jessica Dorsky THE DAILY CARDINAL
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Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, says he wants to make changes to the UW System budget to benefit Wisconsin’s economy.
Dane County Farmers’ Market to move indoors Saturday The Dane County Farmers’ Market is moving indoors Saturday for the winter as it concludes its 43rd season. More than 70 vendors reserved stalls at the Monona Terrace, according to a press release. The early winter market vendors provide fresh vegetables, meats, cheese, baked
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goods, eggs, honey, maple syrup and other edibles, all directly from the producers, according to the release. Producers will also offer turkeys, decorations and specialty bakery items for Thanksgiving. The market will be housed at Monona Terrace on John Nolen Drive Nov. 15 through
Dec. 20 from 7:30 a.m. to noon and at Madison Senior Center at 330 W. Mifflin St. from 8 a.m. to noon Jan. 5 through April 11. A special “Taste of the Market” breakfast will be held 8:30 to 11 a.m. The next Outdoor Farmers’ Market on the Square will be held April 18. There will be no market Dec. 15.
Weekend of winning
Despite great play from Michigan and Michigan State, Badgers go undefeated
Leg cramps began to set in for Brandon Jaeger at the 18-mile mark. Despite the “grueling” last six miles, Jaeger finished the Madison Marathon Sunday, a race he began training for in July. “Crossing the finish line is hands down the best part of it all,” Jaeger said. “Just knowing that you finished the 26.2 and now all the pain in your legs can be put to a title.” Jaeger, a UW-Madison junior studying accounting, said he has always been physically active. He completed his first race, the Tough Mudder, the summer before his sophomore year in college. Following that race, Jaeger ran two half marathons, one in the winter and one in the spring. “Running the marathon isn’t the hard part,” Jaeger said, “the hard part is all the work that goes into it before hand.” Focusing his training on time instead of distance, he ran four or five times a week, with an average start time of 6:30 a.m. “The biggest aspect of [run-
ning] and what also might be my least favorite aspect of it is getting up extremely early in the morning to go for my run,” Jaeger said. “It involves a ton of discipline.” The week before the marathon, Jaeger said he cut carbohydrates out of his diet, replacing the sub sandwiches he usually had for lunch with protein bars and trail mix. Jaeger’s father, a three-time marathoner, continuously stressed the importance of hydration, advice that Jaeger wishes he had taken more seriously once his cramps began. “Everyone says that the last six miles are always the toughest part,” Jaeger said. “I experienced it to a whole different level, pretty much peg legging it in my last six miles.” Jaeger finished in 4:13:58, about 14 minutes slower than his goal. Following a brief hiatus to recuperate, he hopes to continue running and improve his time. “[Running] has taught me a lot about myself,” Jaeger said. “[It] showed me how far I can push myself to accomplish a goal.”
The Odyssey
UW puts contemporary spin on a classic tale + ARTS, page 5
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”