10 Numbers You Need to Know on Scott Walker Recall Day

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Tom Barrett, left, and Scott Walker Brian Cahn/ZUMA Press

Anyone who has followed this year's recall battle in Wisconsin knows the feeling of being buried in news stories, blog posts, tweets, rumors, and innuendo on campaign spending, crime rates, job creation, and the John Doe investigation looming over Gov. Scott Walker. "Frenzy" is a good word to describe the past 16 months in Wisconsin politics. The fight began with Walker's anti-union "budget repair" bill and the protests against it, but since then, Democrats and Republicans have clashed continuously over the governor and his controversial agenda, and political advertisements have blanketed TV and radio.

Let's face it: It's hard to make sense of it all in Wisconsin. So Mother Jones has compiled 10 of the most striking statistics from the recall rumble. They give you a sense of the time, money, and manpower invested by all sides—and how much each side has at stake:

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Sitting US governors before Scott Walker who faced a recall via ballot box. Those two governors are North Dakota's Lynn Frazier, whom voters recalled in 1921, and California's Gray Davis, who got the boot in 2003.


6.4 percent

Walker's lead over Barrett in RealClearPolitics' polling average, a number that takes into account polls from as early as August 2011.


$63.5 million

Total spending on Scott Walker's recall election by candidates and outside political groups through the final days before the election. That sum shatters the previous record of $37.4 million in the 2010 gubernatorial election.