so Walker got 133K more votes this time than in 2010...boggles the mind. Tweet below.

[NRaleighLiberal]

Andy Kroll ?@AndrewKroll
RT @davecatanese In 2010, Walker got 1,128,941 votes. With 97% he's got 1,262,765. An increase of about 133K. #WIGOV #Wirecall

We got out the vote all right.....but not the right voters, it seems. Again - battered state syndrome - why? why?

[Ed Suspicious]

1. He's been campaigning for a year. He had a simple message. He didn't let the facts get in the way

of the truth, he created his own facts and created his own evidence to substantiate those facts. We had a primary a month ago. We elected the same guy who was beaten by Walker before in an insufficient anybody but Walker election. Peacenikki said she thought we should have waited until the general to have the recall. I think she was right. We worried about losing the passion from a year ago, but if we were patient I bet things would have been different. I think those are a few reasons why. Not at all all inclusive.

[bigdarryl]

2. The biggest difference was he had the whole party on his side

Where the DNC and the party as a whole was not that motivated to help the Wisconsin Dems

[emulatorloo]

3. Seems more like Walker had a couple or three billionaires on his side.

Don't think he needed that much from the Republican party.

[dahouse]

4. Barrett surpassed Walkers numbers from 2010 and could not pull it off.

Barrett surpassed Walkers numbers from 2010 and could not pull it off.

1,145,190 versus 1,128,941

[Skinner]

8. Welcome to DU, dahouse.

[bigwillq]

9. Hello

Welcome to DU!

[WI_DEM]

17. yes, thanks for pointing out that both Barrett and Walker increased their 2010 vote

it wasn't just Walker.

[renate]

5. I think it's just fine when a candidate I don't like wins, if it's a fair fight

That's what a democracy rather than a plutocracy is all about.

And that's why this victory bugs me. If you have enough money you can persuade enough easily-persuadable people to do anything.

[Cosmocat]

11. That is my take away

and sadly part of a growing bag of evidence that collectively the people in this country far too often are just plain idiots.

[joshcryer]

6. Yep, 60k more votes than McCain in 2008. The fundies voted today.

We only got 150k more votes out than 2010.

But 450k less votes than 2008.

The fundies ran this thing like it was a Presidential election.

[MADem]

13. Or the ballot stuffers/switchers were hard at work!

Hard to know...

[Thrill]

7. Ever think that people just don't like the idea

of changing Governors in the middle of a term? Whether they like the clown or not?

[L. Coyote]

10. Opposition to his recall got those votes

It is far more difficult to get people to throw out an elected governor in a recall than it is to do so in the usual general election fashion, so don't just credit the vote result to Walker per se.

[L. Coyote]

12. Here are the results in 2008, 2010, 2012 compared in one easy table

Obama 2080 = 1,677,211
Walker 2010 = 1,128,941
Barrett 2012 = 1,162,785
Walker 2012 = 1,334,450
Barrett 2010 = 1,004,303
McCain 2008 = 1,262,393

[L. Coyote]

16. County results

http://www.wisconsinvote.org/results/Governor%20-%20Special%20General/county-results

[pre]
Adams 3,657 4,497 8,251
Ashland 4,169 2,595 6,814
Barron 7,012 10,420 17,568
Bayfield 4,893 3,269 8,217
Brown 41,204 61,932 103,755
Buffalo 2,147 3,403 5,594
Burnett 2,544 4,002 6,583
Calumet 7,506 15,004 22,617
Chippewa 10,470 14,955 25,668
Clark 3,614 8,124 11,833
Columbia 13,068 12,904 26,132
Crawford 3,159 3,355 6,571
Dane 175,034 77,449 253,719
Dodge 13,947 24,841 39,030
Door 6,304 8,398 14,777
Douglas 11,706 6,371 18,181
Dunn 7,092 8,406 15,606
Eau Claire 20,560 20,720 41,604
Florence 717 1,338 2,065
Fond du Lac 16,098 29,037 45,444
Forest 1,485 2,180 3,709
Grant 8,614 9,490 18,240
Green 7,978 8,402 16,451
Green Lake 2,562 5,799 8,415
Iowa 5,657 4,956 10,690
Iron 1,266 1,612 2,892
Jackson 3,464 4,070 7,596
Jefferson 14,678 22,461 37,413
Juneau 4,223 5,427 9,733
Kenosha 29,626 28,921 58,895
Kewaunee 3,383 6,107 9,532
La Crosse 24,620 22,593 47,562
Lafayette 2,924 3,887 6,857
Langlade 2,886 5,617 8,565
Lincoln 5,333 7,178 12,617
Manitowoc 12,683 23,130 36,081
Marathon 21,793 36,328 58,519
Marinette 6,238 10,262 16,590
Marquette 2,764 4,099 6,909
Menominee 575 208 786
Milwaukee 249,888 143,228 395,045
Monroe 6,086 9,039 15,280
Oconto 5,782 11,044 16,928
Oneida 7,359 10,429 17,935
Outagamie 29,624 47,580 77,670
Ozaukee 14,070 34,276 48,486
Pepin 1,216 1,855 3,088
Pierce 6,736 8,311 15,101
Polk 6,593 10,135 16,832
Portage 15,654 14,825 30,721
Price 2,649 4,079 6,801
Racine 40,191 45,480 86,177
Richland 3,299 3,899 7,251
Rock 35,297 27,502 63,275
Rusk 2,158 3,719 5,937
Sauk 12,807 13,631 26,604
Sawyer 3,035 4,004 7,083
Shawano 5,644 11,198 16,928
Sheboygan 18,605 34,018 52,902
St. Croix 13,172 20,884 34,177
Taylor 2,198 5,748 8,003
Trempealeau 4,638 6,262 10,987
Vernon 5,756 6,346 12,200
Vilas 4,152 7,289 11,513
Walworth 14,330 26,201 40,732
Washburn 3,151 4,277 7,487
Washington 16,622 52,278 69,146
Waukesha 58,167 154,203 213,076
Waupaca 7,560 14,093 21,779
Waushara 3,751 6,463 10,283
Winnebago 30,861 39,859 71,166
Wood 13,166 18,528 31,975
1,161,870 1,334,430 2,510,649

[BamaFanLee]

14. Walker just needs to be Cained

Someone needs to find a skeleton in his closet like we did Herman Cain and send this clown packing.

[Rhiannon12866]

15. I do not understand.

[WI_DEM]

18. umm, Barrett got 124,000 more votes in 2012 than 2010, too.

A big increase in both Milwaukee & Madison for Barrett.