"They don't have a candidate, but Democrats increasingly have a message for the 2014 gubernatorial race..."

"... Wisconsin is falling behind Minnesota, and it's Scott Walker's fault."

Just minutes after learning of better economic news in Minnesota than Wisconsin in 2012, progressives took to their keyboards and began blaming "extremist" policies enacted in our state in the last two years, in prose so purple it could have been on a Vikings football jersey.

There is one big problem with this argument: Wisconsin has been falling behind Minnesota for a long, long time....