Tuesday primaries

[Riot]

Originally Posted by wiphan

HUGE WIN FOR THE PUBLIC UNIONS in WI yesterday. They spent over $5 million on a candidate that lost to a guy that doesn't support them by 24 points. Voting for Barrett is only voting against Walker not for Tom Barrett. Barrett has proven time and time again he will do absolutely nothing. Just take a look at what he has done as the Mayor of the City of Milwaukee. Should be a fun 4 weeks

Starting with Barrett's win yesterday every single union and other candidate came out in full support. You're right, it will be a fun 4 weeks, and Wisconsin will decide. Nearly a million Wisconsin voters already decided Walker should undergo a recall election, thus he is. That's a historic lack of confidence by the electorate right there. I've seen zero indication that Walker has gotten the message that he represents all of Wisconsin, not just the Koch brothers.

[wiphan]

Originally Posted by Riot

Starting with Barrett's win yesterday every single union and other candidate came out in full support. You're right, it will be a fun 4 weeks, and Wisconsin will decide. Nearly a million Wisconsin voters already decided Walker should undergo a recall election, thus he is. That's a historic lack of confidence by the electorate right there. I've seen zero indication that Walker has gotten the message that he represents all of Wisconsin, not just the Koch brothers.

How many of those so called million people that forced the recall showed up yesterday in support of their candidate? How many people voted for walker in a meaningless primary for walker? If this recall was about unions and collective bargaining they lost yesterday

[Riot]

Originally Posted by wiphan

How many of those so called million people that forced the recall showed up yesterday in support of their candidate? How many people voted for walker in a meaningless primary for walker? If this recall was about unions and collective bargaining they lost yesterday

Yesterday hardly was any statement at all about "unions and recalls". That comes in four weeks.

Yesterday was another election in a state rocked by multiple elections and recalls, and this election wasn't even mentioned in multiple small-town Wisconsin newspapers. Election fatigue is real. The turnout was pretty good, however. Hard to tell what's what with the crossover Dems who voted for that kid running against Walker.

But more Dems voted than GOP. If the same dedicated voters on both sides come out in four weeks, Barrett wins easily.

But everyone knows that yesterday hardly matters, in comparison to what happens at the recall election for Walker and other current office-holders four weeks from now.

If Walker holds his office (I don't think he will, but we'll see - he's had millions from out-of-state big donors funneled in to try and hold the seat), doubtful he'll have the GOP state legislature that has allowed him free reign to do the ALEC legislative bidding that he and the Fitz's have done so far.

The electorate is fed up, and both sides are acting within their rights, meeting what is required, and doing what responsible voters do - signing petitions and voting.

[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.

http://gazettextra.com/weblogs/lates...ks-30-percent/

[wiphan]

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.

http://gazettextra.com/weblogs/lates...ks-30-percent/

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.

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by wiphan

Walker fixed it. Let's not Falk it up. We couldn't Barrett.

[Riot]

"Walker fixed it"

Fixed what? Not jobs: Wisconsin had worst in the country private sector numbers, 23,000 loss. Not the budget: he had to steal money to try and cover his losses. Not unions: they gave him everything he asked for as far as concessions, he busted them anyway in accordance with what ALEC and the RGA told him to do.

Walker is a mouthpiece and a short-leashed dog for his corporate owners. They are pouring millions in from out of state to try and keep him in office. Walker has spent more time out of state raising money than in it.

Good luck! May the best man win - even if the GOP attempt to restrict voting access was overturned in court.