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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN Exit Poll: Walker 50% Barrett 50%
It's down to the wire folks.
ETA: 50/50 for Lt. Gov., too. Turn on CNN now for more details.
ETA2: Obama up 54/43 in Wisconsin.
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)davidwparker
(5,397 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)would have at least a small edge.
pnwmom
(108,977 posts)So yes, elections can be very close!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002768497
boxman15
(1,033 posts)Bullshit.
bucolic_frolic
(43,158 posts)Florida 2000 .... may the better cheater win.
Skinner
(63,645 posts):crossingfingers:
Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)I just saw Huffpo and their headline was "Walker Survives"
Tom had 44+% and scumbag had 54/56%
WTF???
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)Dirty, dirty love.
aggiesal
(8,914 posts)It's those damn, non-transparent voting machines.
I believe that if a race is within 6%, it can and will be stolen.
Remember Max Cleland in Georgia senate race of 2002?
Polls leading up to the election and exit polls on election day
showed Cleland with a 6-7% point lead, and he ended up
losing by 7%. That's a 13-14% swing.
Exit polls today showed 50-50, and now Walker has a 12%
lead?
I'm not buying it.
Something happened somewhere.
Watch what happens in the next few days.
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)We need to bring in election inspectors from other countries, because this place is now a banana republic.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)I can't imagine ANYONE who supports Obama would go in there and vote for Walker even if they felt there was no criminal intent on being recalled (the reason given as to why Walker had won). Sorry, Walker isn't some moderate republican like Susan Collins or Arlen Specter (when he was GOP) that enjoyed a large crossover vote from independants and democrats. This was uber hardcore right-wing tea bagger. To say you will vote for Obama and still support Walker is just bonkers.
I also have trouble thinking that 36% of union members
would have voted for Walker.
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)There's a growing resentment among private sector unions over those working in public sector ones. The union movement has become very provincial as you didn't see steelworkers or autoworkers or plumbers out there marching...feel public sector unions get advantages they don't.
As one whose been to Wisconsin many times and have a lot of friends who were involved with the recall, you could see a resentment with all the protests and recall. The union movement did a poor job in getting people to understand how this issue related to them...
shcrane71
(1,721 posts)shcrane71
(1,721 posts)You have to suspend all logic to vote for a RW wingnut like Walker, and then say you're going to vote for Obama. Remember this is Obama, who has been utterly pilloried by the GOPers.
We're supposed to believe that voters are psychotic. It seems more logical to me that some sort of shenanigans happened.
Freddie Stubbs
(29,853 posts)crazylikafox
(2,756 posts)"it's not who votes, it's who counts the votes" that matters. Always remember that.
shcrane71
(1,721 posts)Thanks for the quote. Was that Emma Goldman?
mzmolly
(50,992 posts)findings?