Walker Recall Vote IMPOSSIBLE

[hue]

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The exit polls taken of voters leaving the schools and community halls on June 5 show 51% favored Obama over Romney 44%. All those Obama supporters voted for Walker? Hard to believe?

So, why would such a high, unlikely, and statistically impossible number of people who favor Obama, vote for Walker? Obama carried Wisconsin by 14 points over McCann in the presidential election, so the exit poll reflects an 7 point slide since then. Yet, the defections of people who voted for Obama in ’08 – that voted for Walker in the recall election are far and away larger than any reasonable rationalization can justify.

CBS exit poll Recall Election

(CBS News) Voters in Wisconsin are deciding today whether to recall their governor, but many are looking to the race to provide clues into the presidential election this November. And early CBS News exit polls show that President Obama would have an advantage over presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the battleground state if the presidential race was held today.

Among voters in today’s recall election, 51 percent said they would pick Mr. Obama, compared to 45 percent for Romney. Two percent say they won’t vote. However, it should be noted that there is a lot of time before the November elections, and it’s too soon to tell what the electorate will be like in five months.

In 2008, Mr. Obama defeated Republican Sen. John McCain by 14 percentage points in Wisconsin.

[Scuba]

1. Not impossible...

... just beyond any plausible explanation. Add to that the R's love for rigging elections and my suspicion meter goes straight to the redline.

Still trying to learn if ballot burning was delayed. Anyone?

[HereSince1628]

2. Agree not impossible. But everything was done that could be done to keep it honest

The Prosser debacle had the democrats motivated to watch everything and everything was watched.

I'm not sure it was stolen. But, I agree that the concept of Walker democrats is really hard to get one's head around.

Early on we were all excited about big turnout believing big turnout is always good for dems. All the folks I worked with thought the folks we canvassed were doing a good job turning out. But, around 2 in the afternoon as I was checking the local newspapers reports in the tween counties Jefferson, Washington, Walworth Cos it was becoming clear that the turnout was actually high in areas considered to be strong for Walker.

I think we did get beat at the polls, though I'm not sure that the election was a level playing field.

[dragonlady]

3. The idea that ballots would be burned came from a misunderstanding of a GAB memo

The memo referenced Wisconsin Statutes section 7.23, but just used "7.23" instead of the full phrase. A well-intentioned person misunderstood that and spread the idea that ballots were in danger of being burned on July 23.

[Scuba]

4. Thank you for straightening that out. So do you know for a fact the ballots are secure ....

... for a recount? What have you heard about the recount effort?

[dragonlady]

5. I have no special knowledge about the recount yet

I signed up for it but have not been able to go to a training. They wrote that they would send info about other trainings so I'm waiting for that.

[Overseas]

6. We're supposed to believe that Big Money made it possible. Outspent 8 to 1.