Republicans Hold On to Wisconsin Senate After Recall Vote
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newatit2010
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Blame the Tea Party lol they brought the stock market. God I love tea partying.
MuyLocoNC
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This is GREAT FUCKING NEWS.
This recall election was being trumpeted by the Left as a repudiation of the policies of the Conservatives. This was going to PROVE that the American public wasn't on board with the Republican's agenda. This is a straight up kick in the nuts to that horseshit. It's going to be awesome to watch the upcoming recall election and see if the Dems lose a seat or two.
Getting a super majority and over reaching, just like so many conservative pundits said they would, is going to lead to the unwinding of decades of Progressive shit legislation. Goodbye Obama...Harry Reid no longer Senate Majority Leader, 2012 is gonna be the Lib's worst fucking nightmare.
This recall election was being trumpeted by the Left as a repudiation of the policies of the Conservatives. This was going to PROVE that the American public wasn't on board with the Republican's agenda. This is a straight up kick in the nuts to that horseshit. It's going to be awesome to watch the upcoming recall election and see if the Dems lose a seat or two.
Getting a super majority and over reaching, just like so many conservative pundits said they would, is going to lead to the unwinding of decades of Progressive shit legislation. Goodbye Obama...Harry Reid no longer Senate Majority Leader, 2012 is gonna be the Lib's worst fucking nightmare.
MuyLocoNC
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No one ever said that politicians actually doing what they need to do would make them popular. They lost two seats, but have a chance to get one or two of them right back in the upcoming recall election for the Dems. Considering the blatant lies of the Unions (no more collective bargaining, lol) and the fearmongering of the Dems, it's a massive vindication. MOST level headed citizens may not like what they are doing, but understand it's necessary. You may disagree, but the voters don't, sorry.
undertheice
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on the other hand, that is a 67% approval rating. far higher than the dismal failures of our administration.
Carne Seca
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Especially considering the fact these were Republican strongholds.
mame
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This is not much of a Republican victory, but it is a good barometer for the recall of Walker next year... And if anything Walker should be pretty worried. This article breaks it down:
So what's absolutely certain is that when Wisconsin Democrats attempt to recall Walker next year it will be very close, and if he continues to overreach it will only hurt him; If Walker is smart, he'll make a shift towards the middle to prevent losing his governorship - and if he does that, than that's really all anyone wants in the first place... A sensible, moderate leader. It seems he has said he plans to work with both parties from here on out as well, so maybe he isn't as dumb as he made himself to be when this whole fiasco started.
Combined across the six districts, the Democratic candidates received 47.3 percent of the vote, and the Republican incumbents 52.7 percent.
Each of these districts are swing districts — but, nevertheless, five of the six are slightly more Republican than Wisconsin as a whole. In total, they gave Mr. Walker 55.6 percent of their votes in 2010, as compared to the 52.3 percent he achieved statewide — a Republican lean of 3.3 percentage points. (The difference mostly reflects the fact that no portions of Democratic-leaning Madison, and few portions of Democratic-leaning Milwaukee, participated in the elections last night.)
What that means is that if you wanted to use Tuesday’s results as a proxy for a recall vote on Mr. Walker, you’d want to subtract 3.3 points from the Republican total and add 3.3 points to the Democrats’ total to get a sense of how the whole state might have voted. That would point toward a recall vote that would be too close to call: Republicans would have gotten 49.4 percent of the vote, and Democrats 50.6 percent, according to this method.
Carne Seca
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Or maybe he got his new corporate walking orders. Lie low until you retain the governorship and then continue to fuck everything up.
Charlie Ventura
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The Progressives should be shaking their heads in bewilderment and disbelief. The unions pumped MILLIONS into this recall campaign and had their heads handed to them.
The question now is, how much more damage can puppet Obama and his union masters do to destroy the country before 2012?
The T.E.A. Party rocks!
The question now is, how much more damage can puppet Obama and his union masters do to destroy the country before 2012?
The T.E.A. Party rocks!
undertheice
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ok, so maybe you can tell me just which corporate masters his agenda is designed by. the government corporation? the taxpayer's corporation? we all know who's rolling up the big money behind his opposition, the democratic party and the public sector unions, but it would seem that it is the taxpayers themselves and, of course, his own party that are bankrolling his bid to keep government workers from sucking too hard on the taxpayer's teat.
mame
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Two seats in one recall election is unprecedented, I'd describe these recalls as a mixed bag more than anything... Democrats did something that's never been done in Wisconsin before and also likely seeded a second thought into walkers decision making process (for fear of further voter backlash); On that other hand, no majority in the state senate..
This is far from a Republican victory though.
Charlie Ventura
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Forget Republican vs Democrat. This was a victory for conservatives ... and an ass whipping for the union bosses.
UncleBuck
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and the conservatives just threw a few nickels at this effort?
LOL!
unseating two incumbent republican in traditionally republican districts is barely getting your ass handed to you. in fact, the republicans BARELY escaped with a majority, and they still have to worry about people within their party that could caucus with the democrats.
i bet walker was shitting bullets and sweating bricks.
Carne Seca
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Small comfort, but, every little bit helps.
ink the world
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The view of someone that has little to no understabding about the recall process or politics in general.
You realize that those recall elections were in Republican districts?
You realize that in one district no Dem has won an election in over 100 years?
You realize that this was NOT a statewide election?
This was not a statewide election, it was on friendly home Republican turf, they shouldnt have lost a single seat if you think about it at all.
The battle is amusing the Righties bitch about "union thugs" and the Lefties bitch about the Koch brothers, and all the arguing is over DISTRICT election held on Republican turf. ....Im a moderate and Ill tell you this, while the Proggys didnt win the battle (they couldnt to anyone with a shred of political knowledge) they will end up winning the war.......Look at EVERY poll Charlie, the TeaParty has overstepped and will end up paying in the general elections.
If the Right think they are going to win a wwar between the super rich and working people they are sadly mistaken and clearly dont pay any attention to the polls. Mark my words this is a strategic blunder by the right.