rating is finally below 50%. Maybe folks here are WAKING THE HELL UP???

They vote for Obama. Then they vote for Walker, Then they vote to keep Walker by a larger margin, Then they vote for Obama again. That means a significant number of Walker voters in the recall also voted for the President.

I hope your right though.

If you can figure us out, let me know.

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Wisconsinites who vote D include a fraction who care more about national level offices than state elections. It's a large enough fraction to create swings between national election years and off years.

This pattern was exacerbated when it empowered R gerrymandering.

The Repubs have successfully redistricted the state to favor them. In the last state election more Dem votes were cast than Repub votes but because of the redistricting the Repubs won.

how could nearly half of anything approve of that sorry little buttboy.

for politicians who sounded like they would do something about the economy
or improve their pocketbooks.

The President has delivered and the downside of the Governor's policies
are just coming to light.

http://www.progressive.org/why-scott-walker-job-record-is-so-embarrassing

When he ran for governor in 2010, Scott Walker vowed to create 250,000 jobs in his first term. But he must be regretting that promise today.

· Wisconsin retains a job deficit of 156,300 according to the Center on Wisconsin Strategies, a progressive think-tank at UW-Madison. That deficit includes 71,900 jobs lost since the recession plus an additional 84,400 jobs needed to keep pace with population growth.

· Wisconsin ranked 44th in private-sector job growth even by the economic measure selectively used by Walker, the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. Wisconsin fell from 41st and 37th in the previous two quarterly reports.

While wages for US workers fell 1.1% last year, the situation in Wisconsin was even worse, with wages falling at double that rate, a loss of 2.2%. This wage decrease heightens growing inequality in Wisconsin: “Between 1996 and 2010, the bottom 40 percent of Wisconsin earners experienced an average decrease of $2,407 in their adjusted gross income, measured in 2012 dollars,” according to COWS and the Wisconsin Budget Project. “The top fifth of income tax filers saw an increase in earnings of more than $17,000 over this period.”

The state supreme court will go his way and he'll appeal all the way.
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Cruelty/lack of empathy is a hallmark of GOP policy!!
I'm hoping these court loses are a harbinger of what is yet to come for the 1% and their minions!!

http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/after-nearly-million-gov-scott-walker-ends-outside-legal-pact/article_0e0e48d8-f0a7-11e2-bd98-0019bb2963f4.html

Walker spokesman Tom Evenson said Michael Best was hired at the request of the Department of Justice and helped it handle “multiple strains of litigation” challenging the collective bargaining changes, passed into law as 2011 Act 10.

Evenson said the state has, with Michael Best’s help, prevailed in all five challenges that have been litigated to a final resolution. There are three pending cases, all brought by labor unions. One is awaiting a ruling in federal court, one is in Dane County Circuit Court, and one is now before the state Supreme Court.

The case before the Supreme Court will review a lower court ruling that struck down parts of the law as unconstitutional.

Executive Assistant Attorney General Steven Means said the Department of Justice feels it can handle the remaining cases without additional outside help.

“The total mass of the workload is getting less,” Means said. “Hopefully we’re getting to the end of the Act 10 litigation.”

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work load is getting less... This does not seem good for labor if this statement is correct....


I was wondering how the case with freedom of speech was going? Have you heard about that one.... And does this one impact act 10 at all? I'm not sure you have any info. about this... I'm just trying to completely understand how act 10 is impacting labor.. thanks.

elections matter republicans talk about reducing big government but accept federal money & federal aid when a disaster strikes

feeling some responsibility since he grew up in Colorado, although the Springs is another world.

Hope he's replaced in the next election.