No class in WI as teachers protest union-busting governor

[archibaldcrane]

Ooh, and the completely despicable robocalls are out in force too!

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/loc...a4bcf887a.html

[archibaldcrane]

Fivethirtyeight's parsing of all the polling is pretty convinced of a solid Walker win.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes...ed/#more-31048

[Salodin]

Justice wins again.

[Talint]

I look forward to Waukesha county once again making headlines.

Oh, yes. She's still around.

[Kuya]

After what he pulled he can manage to escape a recall?

[Talint]

After what he pulled he can manage to escape a recall?

He sure can. Voters have very short memories, it's not happening on election day, voters in general don't like recalls, his opponent is a rematch for 2010, and his campaign coffers outweigh the opponent's 5 to 1.

There's no way democrats are going to win this.

[Buffy]

He sure can. Voters have very short memories, it's not happening on election day, voters in general don't like recalls, his opponent is a rematch for 2010, and his campaign coffers outweigh the opponent's 5 to 1.

There's no way democrats are going to win this.

Alternatively, the majority of voters agree with the moves he has made to balance the budget and limit the roll of unions.

[Tyche]

To add some strangeness to the WI recall election, exit polls favor Walker, but also show Obama to have a 6 point lead over Romney. Many posited that the recall election would be a precursor to the state's vote in November. I guess not.

[Talint]

Alternatively, the majority of voters agree with the moves he has made to balance the budget and limit the roll of unions.

No. This is a highly partisan election with lots of money coming from everywhere corrupting the process. Nothing more.

[Buffy]

To add some strangeness to the WI recall election, exit polls favor Walker, but also show Obama to have a 6 point lead over Romney. Many posited that the recall election would be a precursor to the state's vote in November. I guess not.

I was just reading about this. Some speculate that a Walker win forces Obama to spend resources in WI he was able to avoid spending 4 years ago, making other races tighter. But everything I've read is that Obama wins the state in the general election in Nov.

[Talint]

Alternatively, the majority of voters agree with the moves he has made to balance the budget and limit the roll of unions.

No. This is a highly partisan election with lots of money coming from everywhere corrupting the process. Nothing more.

edit

Less glibly, to read it as a referendum on Walker's actions/legislative agenda, be it win or loss, is incorrect.

[Buffy]

No. This is a highly partisan election with lots of money coming from everywhere corrupting the process. Nothing more.

Hard to disagree with either of those statements. It is highly partisan, and it does have a lot more money involved then 2 (???) years ago when Walker was originally voted in.

[Tyche]

With less than a percent reporting, Walker is leading and the democratic Lt. Gov. Is leading. How fucked up would that be lol?

[archibaldcrane]

Poll results starting to trickle in:

http://host.madison.com/

[archibaldcrane]

Exit Polls are close (if that means anything)

Tuesday’s exit polls depict a much closer recall race – 50% to 50% -- between Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Democrat Tom Barrett than pre-election polls did.
That doesn't mean that's where the margin will end up.
But right now the Walker-Barrett race is so close in the exit polling there appears little chance it will be called by media outlets until deep into the vote-counting.
Some notable patterns in the exit polling:
Union households are a larger slice of this electorate (33% of the vote Tuesday) than in 2010 (26%). That’s important because this group is voting even more heavily against Walker (64% to 35%), than it did in 2010.
Conservatives appears to be a smaller slice of this electorate (34% of 2012 voters) than in 2010 (when they made up 37% of the vote).
Walker has lost ground among independents since 2010. Independents voted 56% to 42% for Walker over Barrett in 2010, but favor him only by 50% to 49% in Tuesday’s exit polling.
Walker also appears to have lost ground among women. He lost women by three points, 48% to 51%, in 2010. But this time he is losing them by 12 points, 56% to 44%.

[Tyche]

Looking at comparison charts, Walkeris doing significantly better than he was in 2010. It's early, but not looking good for WI.

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/...-results#graph

[archibaldcrane]

Yikes.

[Blubbartron]

Sigh. I'm gonna be a sad panda if Walker doesn't get recalled. His corrupt goals that will crush the middle/lower classes were caught *on tape* and people are still voting for him. America sucks.

[Tyche]

Sorry for the size

[Salodin]

He's doing worse, but still winning? How much of a land slide was the 2010 election? >_>