2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAre the Winds Shifting Towards Wisconsin Democrats?
There's been quite a bit of bad news for the recall activists hoping to oust Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. A close primary at the beginning of the month divided party supporters and muddied the unified front activists formed when they collected over a million signatures to prompt the recall. Then there was the moneyWalker spent much of 2012 testing his stump speech with out-of-state voters.
Thanks to a loophole, he could receive unlimited contributions while until the recall election was officially called, giving him months to raise over $14 millionmore than some presidential candidates. While Tea Party groups continued to beat the drum and paint the race as a precursor to November, reports surfaced that the DNC wouldn't be showing up to help eventual Democratic nominee Tom Barrett, which left state Democrats "furious." With all the news, poll numbers showed a fairly consistent 5-point lead for the controversial governor for the first few weeks of May.
It looked fairly bleak. Despite enthusiasm, the recall activists were hugely outspent. There were hardly any undecided voters, which made turnout extremely important, and with the funding gap, the GOP seemed to have a huge advantage. Nationally, the perception was of a quixotic, lost cause.
But with five days to go before the election, things look a lot less bleak; optimists might even say things are looking up.
http://prospect.org/article/are-winds-shifting-towards-wisconsin-democrats
Poiuyt
(18,130 posts)Blue Owl
(50,498 posts)YES!
SunSeeker
(51,698 posts)bending toward justice! On Wisconsin! Oust that Koch-sucker!
secondwind
(16,903 posts)progressoid
(49,999 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)What and odd sentence. If there were optimists, they wouldn't "might say" they would be saying "things are looking up"
Anyway, Cheers to Wisconsin! Kick scotty out!
liberalnationalist
(170 posts)why?
because they are not polling correctly...they (the republican party) can't tell me the million who signed to get rid of this bastard are not coming out to vote in record 2008 like numbers.
why are the slimey Kock suckers spending so much, because they think they can outright buy this election...boy are they in for a f'n suprise.
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)the local FOX news station just said, that Scott Walker is, without a doubt, going to win tomorrow.
Iguess FOX must know for sure that the fix is in place.
concreteblue
(626 posts)Everybody who is concerned about this just paint a mental picture in your mind of a Barrett Victory....couldn't hurt.......