The Recombobulation Area is a 19-time 21-TIME! Milwaukee Press Club award-winning opinion column and online publication founded by Milwaukee journalist Dan Shafer.
Last week, we invited you to participate in what we’re calling “The Wisconsin Democratic Primary Ranked-Choice Voting Experiment.”
With this big field of candidates running to seek the nomination to be the Democratic Party’s candidate in the first open race for governor in Wisconsin since 2010, we wanted to see how this race might look if it were happening under a different kind of voting system.
So, we worked with John D. Johnson, research fellow at Marquette University, to conduct this experiment. Yesterday, Johnson and I shared the results in a live podcast right here on Substack.
This video is available for paid subscribers only. You can watch the full episode here.











