Your very sensible POV is sorely needed now.

Thanks for this thread.

I am sorry to hear of all the troubles in Wisconsin but wonderful hard working folks did not sit back and whine they went into action. We support you and hope your state is the beginning back to sanity.

been watching intrade.com and they have him at 87% winning

did not vote in 2010 to the polls. Walker has a definite ceiling at about 50%. The Dem has room to move.

Lots of enthusiasm and anti-Walker sentiment. We contacted a lot of people, handed out literature, and put up yard signs.

You've got to go door to door and drag those less frequent voters to the polls kicking and screaming if you have to. You need to register new voters, and get them to the polls. You need to get the 400,000 who voted in 2008 but not 2010 the hell to the polls. EVERYONE VOTES. NO GOD DAMN EXCUSES !!

You've inspired me for a year!!

I'm embarrassed to admit that some of the poll results have had their desired effect, and demoralized me to a certain extent. Thank you for pointing out that the polls could be suspect, and that there is a lot happening that is not being reported by the corporate media, which is virtually all conservative. Good luck, WI!!!

I can't say that enough.

Let's face it, our side in this is really energized, a component that was lacking in 2010.

Go Wisconsin!!

Julie

In the end, the right will use a failed Wisconsin recall as a bludgeoned tool to further their agenda to kill the middle class and unions in spite of the DNC (or complicity on their part to understand what will happen when we fail in this recall effort).

While I've been on the DNC, with some more Union enthusiasm, I think we take this. Falk was my favorite too, but now we just need to beat Walker.

Beating the 20/1 Walker spending would be quite the accomplishment.

... and yes Walker is an "ultra corrupt corporate toadie asshole". Well said!

Simply must.

If so, what did they do? Did they send a "Thank You" card?

have over 2 million in ad buys ...

Isn't the point of the OP that the Senate recalls are likely to go our way, not the gubernatorial recall?

I agree with the OP that if Walker triumphs in the recall (which is a very possible, even likely outcome at this point) that the best thing would be to get the Senate in a position to stop the Koch's terrible legislation in its tracks.

Accordingly, I am contributing to those Senatorial campaigns and suggest others do the same!

We cannot let Walker retain his bully-in-chief, king-am-I status. He must be dethroned.

Polls grossly overstate the importance of people that answer landline phones and are willing to talk with pollsters. Those people tends to be angrier and willing to express that anger. I saw that in a 2010 election where the incumbent democratic Governor was shown to be in a tossup race with the republican challenger. The democrat won by six and a half points on election day, a margin so large that the race was decided less than a couple of hours after the polls closed.