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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums8 Ways Delusional Right-Wingers Are Blowing Wisconsin Out of Proportion
http://www.alternet.org/activism/155778/8_ways_delusional_right-wingers_are_blowing_wisconsin_out_of_proportion__/snip
1. Wisconsinites Just Didn't Like the Idea of Recalling a Sitting Governor
An honest reading of the published exit poll leads to an important conclusion about Walker's victory that has little to do with unions, Walker's policies, the economy or any of the other factors that have pundits' tongues wagging.
Fully 70 percent of those voters polled believed that recall elections are either never appropriate (10 percent) or are only appropriate in the case of official misconduct (60 percent).
The governor won 72 percent of this group. And it's worth noting that a third of those voters who said official misconduct is a good reason to recall a governor voted to oust Walker, who has seen six of his staffers charged with 15 felonies in the John Doe probe.
While Walker himself has not yet been charged, reports suggest that the investigation is circling closer to him. Over the past seven weeks, he transferred $160,000 from his campaign funds to a legal defense fund, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. In a recent interview with AlterNet, John Nichols, associate editor of the Madison Capitol Times, noted that the governor is now represented by four separate law firms, including two of the top criminal defense law firms. These arent firms that deal with election law; these are firms that deal with major crimes. He survived the recall, but his problems are by no means over.
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8 Ways Delusional Right-Wingers Are Blowing Wisconsin Out of Proportion (Original Post)
Javaman
Jun 2012
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WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)1. +1
Scuba
(53,475 posts)2. Good article. I disagree about the money, though....
Walker spent tens of millions before Barrett was even the Democratic nominee, and a large majority of voters indicated they made their minds up long before the primaries were conducted.
Good read though. Still fighting.
Shrek
(3,983 posts)3. I think point #6 is spot-on
Barrett's financial disadvantage made it harder for him to get his arguments out, and again, he chose not to run on the very issue that led to the recall in the first place. As a result, the election was a mirror image of 2010, only with more voters going to the polls. Both Walker and Barrett won virtually the same share of the demographics they each held in 2010.
There really wasn't much to distinguish this election from the one in 2010, and I suspect a lot of voters simply figured that they'd already rendered a verdict on that contest.