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Originally Posted by Riot
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Turnout for the recall primary election broke 30 percent, the highest for a partisan primary in Wisconsin in 60 years.
More than 1.3 million people cast ballots Tuesday, which equates to 30.2 percent of eligible voters statewide. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett won a four-way race for the Democratic nomination, while Republican Gov. Scott Walker easily overcame token opposition on the GOP side.
About 670,000 votes were cast for one of the Democratic candidates, with Barrett getting about 387,000 votes. About 646,000 votes were cast on the Republican side.
This is the first gubernatorial recall election in Wisconsin history so there are no comparable primaries with which to compare it. However, the previous high turnout for a regular fall primary was 38.9 percent in 1952 based on records dating to 1948.
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The guy running against Walker received 19,920 votes so cross over from the democrats did not really exist.
Barrett is the Mayor of Milwaukee with the most job losses in the state coming from milwaukee and the highest unemployment by 2% as compared to the rest of the state. He has never held to a single campaign promise and used Walker's reforms to help save Milwaukee $. He has failed terribly as a mayor and has NEVER stood his ground for anything. Glad to see that the democrats think he is qualified to run the state seeing that he has been so good for Milwaukee. Add up Falk and Barrett's votes they are less than Walker votes when many republicans did not take time to vote or crossed over and voted for Falk. If this recall was so important and was really about Collective bargaining then those people that signed the recall petition would have showed up and showed their support. They did not. Now the fun begins and the truth about Tom Barrett comes out again.