Fuck--just fuck

[WI_DEM]

Sorry but this is very tough to take.

[limpyhobbler]

1. uggghhh

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Maybe it's time to check those one day registrations to see how many of voters "returned" to

Wisconsin just for this election?

[sufrommich]

3. You have my sympathy.

I'm sure this is heart breaking for the people of Wisconsin.

[titaniumsalute]

6. Not sad for the 52% who voted for Walker...dumb motherfuckers

[BlueDemKev]

4. Sad, but expected.

I know you win some and you lose some, but with the post-Citizens United Era we're living in, and the steady decline of labor unions, the Democrats are going to have to find some new financial sources in order to compete with the corporate cash that will always pour into Republican coffers.

[Mutiny In Heaven]

7. If Romney wins

The onus will be on future Democratic candidates to woo Koch & co. They'll have to put together a package which is hugely tempting to those sorts of groups in order to stand a realistic chance.

There just isn't the same kind of money on the left - Buffett, Soros & so forth might profess to be liberals, but they are relatively indifferent to who actually wins; the big money in the post-CU era is with the traditionally Republican donors.

[BlueDemKev]

11. Exactly.

All citizens are equal is no longer the guiding principle of our country. What matters is how much money one group has compared to another.

America's decline is underway. At least I can say I've done all I can.

[Swamp Lover]

5. Don't get down. This whole effort has been grassroots at its best.

Learn from mistakes, cheer the positives and keep moving forward.

The rest of the country and the progressive movement cheers our brothers and sisters in Wisconsin!!!!

South Carolina says Y'all Rock!!!!!

[GP6971]

8. But the Dems

Will not learn from this.

[Swamp Lover]

10. This is so much more than "the Dems".

We are the Underground. We are the insurgency. WIsconsin rose up agains the power and caused a shudder. Next effor it will be a tremor. Next will be a fissure. The a column will crumble.

We will not win an election tonight but we have begun to organize and that is what has been lacking in progressive politics for 40 years.

[Dakotacrat]

12. Beautiful response, Swamp Lover.

I believe it. Thank you.

[unreadierLizard]

9. Don't want to be mean, but Wisconsin voted for it.

Now they have to pay the piper once again.

[Rhiannon12866]

13. I am so sorry.

It's just unbelievable. I'm in NY and I'm feeling just sick over this, too...

[jsmirman]

14. I'm sorry

so very sorry -

if, indeed, there was a win in Racine, though, at least there is something to take away from this.