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Onlooker

(5,636 posts)
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 09:35 PM Jun 2012

Is the massive turnout on the right?

If Walker wins handily, then it shows just how much trouble this country is in. The Republican Party, which operates as if whites are a minority and is trying to restore the special rights of straight white Christian males, is far angrier, frightened, and better funded than the liberal movement. I sure hope I'm wrong, but I do worry that the massive turnout in Wisconsin is from the right.

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myrna minx

(22,772 posts)
1. I think we need to calm down and wait for the results to come in.
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 09:36 PM
Jun 2012

I know this is a nail biter and we're so accustomed to be on the receiving end of bad and/or disappointing news, but it really is too close to call right now.

 

Lionessa

(3,894 posts)
3. With the massive turnout, if Walker wins, all it proves is that the election
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 09:39 PM
Jun 2012

has some serious fraud involved in it, as we all have suspected about many elections in the past decade. So it means the money wins out because money manages to get the machines hacked the election officials bribed and/or the burden on the Democratic voters so onerous as to become nearly impossible.

We already know for a fact,iirc, that they are robocalling telling recall signers that they vote is already counted when it isn't.

SoutherDem

(2,307 posts)
4. If the early results are worrying you, don't yet
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 09:40 PM
Jun 2012

The areas only two counties (or what ever they call them) are over 50% counted, and most that are turning in results are those areas which it was a given they would go with walker. The ones which will decide haven't turned in results yet or just a little bit. It will take some time. I am not sure if we will know today at all. If it is too close, especially if a county goes in the wrong direction it will be recounted.

IMHO

mrmx9

(223 posts)
5. Hannity on Fox has just said they expect to call the Governor's race 'shortly'
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 09:40 PM
Jun 2012

Suggests to me Fox are going to call it soon - and presumably for Walker?

 

We Want Peace

(205 posts)
6. uh huh, that is why the right wing had to pay felons to attempt to get signatures for a Dem recall
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 09:42 PM
Jun 2012

And the massive protests we saw in Wisconsin was all a figment of our imagination?

Don't believe the manufactured consent.

They could easily use the central tabulator to flip the vote count, where is Karl Rove?

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