High Voter Turnout In WI Can NOT Be Good For Scott Walker

[stopbush]

1. Who gets out to vote in primary/non-national elections? Why, the people who are pissed off, that's who, and people in WI are pissed off at Scott Walker.

2. Team Walker is trying to suppress voter turnout by targeting people who signed the recall petitions and telling them that they don't need to vote if they signed the petition to recall Walker. What's that tell you? It tells you that they don't want a high turnout today, that's what.

3. High voter turnout is - to paraphrase Jesse Jackson - the result of a good ground game, not a good air game. The Ds have a great ground game in WI, and it will counter the dominance of the airwaves by the Rs. Why? Because a ground game directly targets and contacts potential voters, while TV ads are a passive medium that are dependent on people tuning in, not on people having to answer their door or their phone.

I think I smell fried Walker in the air...

[madashelltoo]

1. DOES IT MAKE YOU DIZZY?

[The Traveler]

2. Trying hard not to get my hopes up

Good grief ... the amount of money the Walker camp has spent on this ...

But reports of this huge turnout makes it hard not to feel elevated hopes. Maybe it ain't so easy for billionaires to buy elections after all ...

Keeping fingers crossed ...

Trav

[deutsey]

5. Same here n/t

[GodlessBiker]

6. Me, too!

[Little Star]

10. +1

[barbtries]

19. remember the CA election.

i cannot recall her name, but she was filthy rich, spent a fortune...and LOST.

[Cali_Democrat]

22. Meg Whitman

a.k.a. Meg Moneybags Whitman

[barbtries]

32. thank you.

it was going to come to me at some point in the future long, long after it could matter to this discussion. lol

[turtlerescue1]

30. Got the kleenex out now

My biggest tie to Wisconsin, besides loving cheeses and that idyllic scenery -my Great( times xxxx ???) Uncle Jacob Spaulding founded Black River Falls in 1839.
Oh woe woe woe. The "poll" from 9 hours ago in BRF went 366 for Him, and only 133 for the Mayor.

Its fairly new sackcloth, hope I don't have to tear it in grief.

[HockeyMom]

3. Guess the Scottie Twin

Didn't have time to purge the "Non-Citizen" Voter Rolls. Crossing my fingers for you guys from here in Florida.

[catbyte]

4. It's an insult to the voters of Wisconsin

that Walker and his bagger cronies think such sleazy, underhanded tactics will work.The teabagger politicians think everybody is as stupid and gullible as their base.

It's infuriating.

Diane
Anishinaabe in MI & mom to Leo, Taz & Nigel, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division
"Dogs Aren’t Luggage Even Though They Are Lower Life Forms--HISS!”

[Tarheel_Dem]

7. Unless this lady's doing the vote counting. She does have a history.....

[Bake]

14. Nothing happened to her then, nothing will happen to her now.

Nothing happened to Harris either.

Bake

[Voice for Peace]

8. I may be totally wrong but guessing that

many traditional Republicans and certainly independents are
somewhat indifferent to Walker at this point -- thanks to
people getting out the information, and going door to door --
unless they are rabid Koch fans.

He just has too much baggage already and I bet even the Kochs
are going to let him hang himself out to dry.

[HereSince1628]

9. True but north of Cudahy we tend to BOIL our fish

[GarroHorus]

11. The problem is where the turnout is.

FWIW, the overwhelmingly Republican Milwaukee suburbs are having crazy high turnout. that means it's more important than ever to have high turnout in Milwaukee proper. We need to push it to 70% there!

[gejohnston]

23. On the other hand,

I read someplace where the pretty Republican rural areas were pissed off at Walker. Hopefully, it is the same case in the suburbs.

[Iliyah]

12. I dunno

but I think many repugs will be voting for Barrett because they are the teachers, police, firefighters, etc., that Heil Walker screwed.

[milwaukeelib33]

13. Unfairly

Wanker exempted police and firefighters from his union busting. In fact, some of their unions have endorsed him.

[mac56]

15. Chickens for Colonel Sanders

[gejohnston]

20. then or now?

a lot happened in a couple of years.

[1000 Words]

16. 12

[DCKit]

17. Hope you're right. nt

[crim son]

18. I just hear on NPR that polls show Walker is ahead.

Of course, polls are unreliable unless they show a rethug is ahead.

[pnwmom]

28. What type of poll? Were they talking about the polls that stopped a couple days ago?

Or do they have pollsters at the voting sites?

[YBR31]

21. I hate to rain on your parade

It depends on where that high turnout is. Unfortunately, it looks like the high turnout is not limited to heavily Democratic areas. It's high in the Walker strongholds as well.

[SunSeeker]

26. Then why do it?

The only thing your comment will accomplish at this point is to suppress Democratic votes. Is that what you want?

[pnwmom]

29. Why should that suppress Democratic votes? It's all the more reason to vote, IMHO. n/t

[HopeHoops]

24. Oh, he shouldn't worry. Nickolaus will fabricate some Republican "oops" votes for him.

[1000 Words]

25. 17

[pnwmom]

27. I read that it's also high in the Republican areas, so I don't know what this means.

But it was critical for the Democrat's turnout to be high, so I'm glad to hear that it is.

[kathysart_decoration]

31. Not certain you're right, but hope you are

I voted in a relatively small suburban area which is outisde of the City of Milwaukee. I have never had to stand in line to vote here and there is only one place to vote. This village is, unfortunately, predominantly Republican and I have seen very few Tom B. signs as opposed to Walker support signs.
I had to stand in line for about 10 minutes and put up with the guy behind me talking about the Democrats being responsible for all the voter fraud problems. I turned around and said he needed to do more reading about the research which showed voter fraud problems simply didn't exist. His reply was that George Soros controlled all that information.
There is nothing to say as a response to just plain stupid, which he clearly was. Unfortunately, he was still allowed to vote.
My point is that I had to stand in a line for the first time ever in this little suburban village just outside the City of Milwaukee. I don't know what it means for Scott Walker's demise.

[progress2k12nbynd]

33. Unfortunately it worked out just fine for him...

All this overconfidence on here was a major letdown.