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Scott Walker on Tuesday, among them a tsunami of Democratic votes in the blue bastions of Dane and Milwaukee counties. Waukesha and Ozaukee counties, two of the state’s wealthiest, most-educated and most-Republican counties, “underperformed” for Walker on Tuesday. The governor, who won Waukesha County by 46 points in 2014, carried it by 34 this time. Nowhere in Wisconsin did Walker’s winning margins decline as much as it did in those two counties. And four, the suburbs have been a minefield for the GOP under Trump and they cost the party its House majority Tuesday. Here, too, the trend in the Walker vote Tuesday followed the trend in the Trump vote in 2016. Both parties fighting trends That trend leaves both parties with sometimes fatal flaws. If the GOP suburbs here grow less Republican and the rural areas grow more Republican, Wisconsin will lose some attributes that set it apart from other states. Democrat Baldwin won 17 counties Tuesday that Trump carried in 2016. Wisconsin isn’t “trending” even if some of its parts are.