How this 'red' county picked up election wins with a little 'blue' research help
State and national elections get a lot of negative attention, but at least voters have a better chance of knowing what the Democratic and Republican candidates stand for — unlike the spring nonpartisan races where you have to do some homework on candidates to vote your values. But that might change as group in Waukesha County shows the value of having that research.
Kristin Hansen told UpNorthNews she started Blue Sky Waukesha County after years of frustration over not knowing much about the candidates for school boards, county boards, and municipal governments like city councils, village boards, and town boards.
“I spent a lot of time digging around,” Hansen said, “reading these people’s websites, reading interviews, doing some research on them. So I started just telling people: ‘Here’s who I’m going to vote for. Here’s why.’ And in 2019, I thought this could be a community service.”
Hansen’s work caught on, and now she says a team of volunteers will sift through information on dozens of local candidates in order to make recommendations to blue-ish voters in an area not necessarily known as a hotbed of progressive politics.
https://upnorthnewswi.com/2026/02/24/how-this-red-county-picked-up-election-wins-with-a-little-blue-research-help/