Tuesday primaries

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Originally Posted by wiphan

Now about those job numbers

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepo...151655365.html

It's nice that Walker found an outlier, a measure not used normally, to try and say he created jobs. He's pretty desperate, especially with the John Doe investigation about felonies in his office ongoing, and his budget disaster.

The way we always and usually measure jobs says differently, of course. From your article:

State officials said they show a gain of 23,321 jobs (public and private) between December 2010 and December 2011, which represents Gov. Scott Walker's first full year in office.

That stands in sharp contrast to a commonly used and widely reported monthly jobs measure, the Current Employment Survey, which earlier this year showed an estimated loss of 33,900 jobs in Wisconsin for the same 12-month period.

Wiphan wrote: Keep trying to spin it any way you want. Try to attack Walker, but the REAL NUMBERS Don't LIE!

That's right. The "real" numbers, that every state uses, that Walker used to use before last year turned out so badly, says Wisconsin was the worse job creation state in the country last year.

Oh yeah the DNC told Barrett that they are not sending any money his way.

Yeah, I read that. They asked for a half-million dollars. There was some fund-raising thing the last two days in response that raised over 250K, I know; and a teachers union just gave that half-million yesterday to make it up.

DNC is coming to Wisconsin to help GOTV, unknown if they will bring their checkbook. It is difficult, as Walker is using virtually 100% of "outside money" to try and hold his seat. He's ahead by 5 points at worse from the polling I've seen, so the Dems have a big task for voter turnout. It helps for the GOP that the GOP obstruction to delay the election until after the universities are dismissed worked. Their attempted obstruction of voter ID at the polls has been overturned by the courts, so that's a GOP loss and a Dem-Independent gain.