NBC News declared Scott Walker the projected winner in the Wisconsin recall effort. After the most expensive campaign in Wisconsin's history, the governor will get to keep his seat. Officials estimated the turnout to be close to the 69 percent level — right up there with the 2008 presidential election. Here's a look at the day in pictures.
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Voters lining up to vote at the French Immersion School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Tuesday.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker walking past members of the press after he filled out his ballot in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.
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Crowds gathering outside of the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison.
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A woman casting her ballot in Milwaukee. Wisconsin.
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We need to check for GOP voter FRAUD after all that is what they do best, CHEAT!
Divide-ocrasy alive and well in the State of WisKOCHsin
Waa Waa waa, we didn't win again, they cheated waa waa waa. With all of the different elections and voting that has been presented directly to the people since the 2008 election, Conservative values have won. That is because the Conservatives want to go about their business and be left alone, and the left want to take more and more of other peoples money to fund their beliefs. It is good to see the people standing up for their rights.
No voter fraud - no cheating - Just big money that turned the state into a corporate-owned entity : a Fascist State. Apathy cost the voters their rights to an elected government. My condolences on the missed opportunity, and I am deeply sorry for what will happen to you until Walker is gone.
This show is so difficult to watch tonight! O'Donnell and his guests all seem to be stunned by the landslide vote in Wisonsin. Surprised they didn't see this coming and are all just trying to submerge themselves in lame talk about Obama's chances in November, just a scant 5 months from now. Does anyone expect the country's mood to drastically change between now and then? I, for one, do not.
The exit polling data shows what I suspected all along. Many independents, even Dems and union workers, thought the recall and the entire political climate was to blame for Wisconsin's problems. < Scroll to the bottom to see the killer figure: 67% of voters thought that recalls should only be used for official misconduct, and they voted that way.
Now the John Doe investigation is heating up, and Walker is ineligible for recall during his first term.
In a way, I'm glad the Dems lost in WI, now we have 2 get off our asses & be more tenacious in our ground game. Take out your checkbooks people #MoneyTalks
A day that shall live in infamy: June 5, 2012. It’s a crack in the Liberty Bell of representative democracy in America.
if you mean, the day the unions lost their grip on the throat's of the middle class working man, then I see your point.
Please RT.. Stay in line and #Vote your #Vote counts.. do not walk away.. #wirecall #wisconsin #wiunion #WI @maddow @edshow #TheLastWord
#wirecall can not be called at 30% w/the GOP WI election fraud seen in past.. #MoneyCantVote so there's no way it can win! #WeThePeopleVote
In my book, it's not over until the last #FatCat sings.. calling an election at 20% is not democracy it's not even math! #wirecall #wiunion
The election is not over until, Kathy Nicklaus discloses where the hidden ballots are.. #wirecall #wiunion @TheLastWord @maddow @edshow
If the only way we can open those big biz pockets 2spend bazillions of $$s.. I love the #PeoplesStimulusPackage #VoteDems and #TakeRsMoney !
Hate to be the one to break it to you, Kevin, but the exit polls showed 38% of voters in the reelection campaign that identified themselves as union members (mostly in the private sector unions) stated they voted for Governor Walker. Seems they were happy that someone was actually doing something in the state for fiscal sanity, and to cut taxes for the middleclass and the businesses small and large to spur the local economy.
Lawrence O'Donnell commented that President Barak Obama was the big winner in Wisconsin tonight. Yeah, and Blackberry is the big winner in wireless handheld devices.
The people of Wi have spoken. Apparently there is something very wrong the progressive message in Wi. How can over 1 million people sign a petition and then not get at least 75% of those to vote against him. Not all of these people have been duped by big money, nor are they dumber than the rest of us. Money cant continue to be blamed for this kind of turnout or result. Wi people have spoken, thats it.
In a way I’m glad the Dems lost in WI, now we have get off our asses & be more tenacious in our ground game. Take out our checkbooks people #MoneyTalks
Why would anyone vote to give their neighbor a reduction in pay?
The reform brought to Wisconsin to allow Municipal and County governments to require public employees to pay some more for their rich benefit packages (but still pay less than what private sector employees pay for lesser benefits) saved public sector jobs, including teachers jobs. Without public sector employees shouldering more of that load, there would have been more cutbacks required in the numbers of employees, you see.
Too, the hard pressed tax payers in Wisconsin got to keep more of their income to spend in the local economy, something that even Bill Clinton in his interview with CNBC yesterday stated should be the goal at the National level, with an immediate reautorization of the Bush Tax Cuts again to aide the overall economy (even if it curtails the patronage aspects of Democrat Party swelling of the Federal Government employees as has been experience under the fiscally irresponsible Obama Administration operating for the third year witout a budget, thanks to the Democrats in the Senate that have refused to pass the Presidents budgets, and won't even bring up the budget packages passed by the House, in effect giving their President carte blanche in the Exercutive Branches spending).
Mark I will answer your question. When I know that my money pays my neighbor's wage, and I don't feel I am getting a fair deal, I will vote for a pay cut for my neighbor.
You do this when you go eat out. You vote with your money. When the food sucks or the service sucks you go somewhere else.
My tax dollars pay for school teacher, If I have spent the exact same amount of time in school, same amount of years working at a similar job. why should the government and unions be the ones to tell me that my take home wages needs to go down soes that the public sector worker can make more than me?
Isn't it President Obama the is always talking about fairness?
CNN said exit polls showed 50%-50% tie at about 9:10 PM tonight. Need to see the final results.
Well, good morning cate. The mostly final results are in, and it was something of a shocker!
Viva Governor Walker!... A Mexicana loves you!
The election should have never been recalled in the first place! Liberals picked the wrong fight. Election have consequences deal with it! The left learned nothing from the 2010 midterms. Congrads Gov. Walker.
The absolute stupidity of O'Donnells opening declaration that Obama was the winner of the Wisconsin recall election last night was perhaps the most telling reason why pap suckers should stop watching his show, and tune into PBS or CNN to get their news and commentary instead. Obama was the biggest loser...he chickened out from showing up to make an effort to support his union brothers; recall that these were the people that he is going to rely on to get out the ground game for his reelection efforts in 5 months, not just in Wisconsin, but Nation wide. Believe me, union members all over the country took notice of his timidity to make an effort in their behalf in Wisconsin, in the final week flying over the state in and out of neighboring Minnessotta for fund raising purposes, but not finding the time to simply set down at the Minneappolis-St Paul airport for a press conference on the tarmak with an embattled Mayor Barrett , the Democrat's and the Unions candidate for Governor in the recall election.
Harold Fineman in a rare moment of clarity of thought made the most succinct comment last night on MSNBC when he stated the future deemphasis on exit polling, which was the only thing that could be said to be a positive with those polls showing Obama still has the allegiance of voters when they were asked if the results of this recall election would foretell the results in November. Although when Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz stated going in that this was exactly what the recall would signify, you might think that those voters that seemed to be saying they still favored Obama in November whatever the results of this election (a 9 point blowout victory for the Republican Scott Walker) might have simply been whistling past the graveyard!
O'Donnell had better stop writing his own material, and hire someone with the competency of logic and clarity of thought, or his ratings are certainly going further down the tube...even Al Sharpton draws a larger viewership now than does Little Lame Brain Larry!.
But, and I don't mean this in a disparaging way at all, Keith Longey, you seem to be one loyal fan judging from your comments in this blog. SO AM I. I may not agree with Lawrence o' Donnell all the time but I find it hard to find a commentator in cable news who is more even, shows more emotion and opines with more passion (all the three, not just one, otherwise Bill o Reilly would qualify).
Well, on O'Reilly, he is a master at appearing above the fray for the most part, although his subjects for his nightly show he chooses usually do forecast his political leanings. Not sure about how much "passion" he shows, unless its on "moral" issues, which usually have something to do with sex, sort of an obsession of his, I believe.
Mathews is pretty passionate, but he is over the top partisan. If you want non partisan, even handed, and understated passion, try Erin Burnett on CNN!
Keith, I must say that your ability to reason is very good. You should have been a lawer, but if you were a teacher that is better. If Superintendent of Schools can get the cooperation of the teacher union, together they will be able to get rid of bad teachers. The reason they say "no one can dismiss a teacher" is because most school district do not have a good Teacher Evaluation system, principals are not willing to evaluate teachers and Superintedents do not know how to work with the Teacher Union. If you were a teacher at one time, you must agree that bad teachers can do a great deal of damage and good teachers are worth a great deal more than what they are paid. If I read you right, I believe you would be willing to get rid of bad teachers. I have no doubt that you would be a very good teacher.
Bullo-the-Clown a master at "appearing above the political fray?" (I think Olbermann might approve of that slight tweaking of his masterpiece)
Shoot, Grandpa appears to have suffered some dementia from his debate a few days ago with the pot-should-be-legal crowd. Contact high, maybe? And being a total non-fan of decriminalization, I was almost rooting for him, except I'm pretty sure his notions of "Prevention" would include smacking the kid a couple of times (look at his views her of Trayvon Marting) and threatening him it if ever happened. Check out how his claims of how he dealt with the locked ward patients under his care. And perish the thought of paying good teachers a living wage so they don't look elsewhere for a way to make a living. My best junior high teacher--still a friend, BTW--is selling insurance, for example.
You'll recall a month or two ago Grandpa insisted he was an "independent"? His whoppers have grown even longer noses since that one...
From the "We use laptops, not Etch-a-Sketches" crowd...
http://www.salon.com/2011/11/12/fords_theatre_flunks_oreillys_lincoln_book/
In my day the teachers worked selling shoes or encyclopedias part time to make ends meet, today they are more likely to be stipping at the local clubs, or selling their sperm, I believe. Watch for a O'Reilly special on that coming soon, Cab Driver! LOL!
O'Reilly would like that scenario; I'm sure he's all in favor of a population too stupid to recognize the factual errors in his pseudo-history of the 16th President. Complete with a "conspiracy" for the drama lovers...
And god forbid that teachers should be able to spend some time with their families, perhaps go bowling, or attend some night classes to augment their professional training.
Of course, judging from his own "sexual innuendoes" above (unbelievably he chided O'Reilly for those as well), Grandpa seems to have moved the five o'clock hour forward in order to avail himself of his favorite tonic.
This election was between labor unions and Walker. Those who are not members of labor unions voted for walker because they do not want to be forced to belong to a union. That is why Obama stayed away. Union membership has gone down because labor unions (not so much public worker unions such as teacher unions) have done some things that members have been unhappy. Some do not join labor unions because they are unhappy with what some union leaders have done. This is not the place for specifics about this problem.
"If you want non partisan, even handed, and understated passion, try Erin Burnett on CNN!"
Thanks. But the problem with this, at least for me, is that it then becomes just news. Which is (i) boring and (ii) I can get from numerous other sources in the Internet. No I like opinions, opinions largely based on facts though. I can watch Erin Burnett all day but I cannot listen to her for long! I'd rather listen to Lawrence and maybe Bill O, and make an opinion for myself. That's just me though. Erin IMHO can't hold a candle to either of these guys (Lawrence wrote West Wing series and Bill O went to Harvard to study public policy, they are steeped in politics!).
Do not underestimate the power of opinions and their abilities to influence people. And if the insight is very good, some people are also willing to pay a lot of money as shown by this video in which the MD of FT.com says they will charge 2000 pounds (!) for China Confidential, an exclusive "newsletter" focused on China (sorry, I am going way OT):
oops didn't know the links to websites are automatically chopped off. Anyways, if interested, you can search for "Rob Grimshaw: Financial times" on You Tube and it's the first video.
For me, I prefer to leave the Chinese to their old inscrutable image.
I usually catch Erin Burnett in the 11:00 PM rerun hours if I'm not watching the Daley Show then with John Stewart for my dosage of sanity saving comic relief, unconventional. At the 7:00 PM hour, I'm usually watching Kudlow on CNBC, where critical debate and commentary abounds in something more digestable than partisan soundbites and oneliners that pass for newsworthy commentary on MSNBC's offerings. I prefer Mathews at 5:00PM, can't stomach him after supper. As to the 10:00 PM time slot, I will have a go at either O'Donnell as long as he isn't rabid, and Greta on Fox alternatively. Between 8:00 OM and 10:00 PM I'm usually looking for entertainment instead of more sammo sammo politics.
What good is all this information? Use you time to learn more about interesting things such as this: LUCA stands for The Last Universal Human Ancestor. It is the Universal God.
LUCA, the universal human ancestor was the first cel, l probably from outer space, that gave rise to all of like on earth.
Uh oh, Auggie got into his mother's medicine cabinet again (or else he fooled the fill-in tech in the ward).
I had my suspicions when he suggested Grandpa might be a good teacher, while Fuzzie is giving all my old issues with my 9th grade biology teacher a workout (that yayhoo was a BYU sort who believed in some sort of precursor to Intelligent Design).
Sadly, a big chunk of the country believes in some sort of nonsense...
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765581223/Poll-46-of-Americans-believe-in-creationism.html
And Auggie, the "last universal human ancestors" walked out of Africa between 40 and 60 thousand years ago. Read Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel if your doubt me on that one. My other advice is quit looking at the Weekly World News when you're standing in the checkout line.
"Gave birth to all like"? Is there something in that one about sexual attraction maybe?
There is no such a thing as "Intelligence Design". Evolution does not require any form of intelligence. Intelligence exist only in humans with a brain. At times I even doubt that some humans with a brain have intelligence. The idea that evolution had some sort of intelligence is crazy. Also the universe was created without any God having to create what is needed to create the universe. The universe was created from things that have always exised - I believe that a universe can come into existence from only Quantum Energy which is made up of the four fundamenta forces nature (gravit, electromagnetic force, the strong force and the weak force) and two fundamental particles (plus and minus). The Big Bang was not big, only a small spark in Quantum Energy. Did you know that E=MC(squared) is not 100% accurate? It should be plus or minus MC(squared) if you consider anti-matter.
walker won as a result of the political BUFFER ZONE america has erected around President Obama - the Black man in their White house. i cannot fathom why all you sophisticated political pundits seem blind to what is actually going on. america got all teary eyed 4 years ago with change and hope and progress and moving forward - but, trust and believe, america has never been comfortable with a Black man in the oval office. what's going on now is hamstring politics - just like in the House - making sure this "socialist", progressive, born in the who-knows-where Black man, first, and President, second, does not get the chance to permanently and unequivocably alter the face of THEIR country. it's a fairly simply process - look at the House and look at the gridlock. and it works because some of the very people carrying union placards are casting their personal ballots for their republican buffer zone representatives. i want to believe President Obama will stroll into the White House in November, but i know it's going to be an every vote counts tightrope. they want to keep him as an ebony footnote in american political history - not the effective, once-in-a-lifetime history changer he really is. the democratic party better wake up and start addressing these hidden agendas across america. take a lesson from Nelson Mandela - he had to reassure the Afrikaners that revenge and retribution was not on the menu and his change would benefit all. there are americans out there still hunkering down, waiting for the black end of the world - who still see President Obama as the educated, smooth talking, pretty likeable anti-Christ. look at the ignoramus - donald frump - how do u think he can always fill a room with morons who still will not accept that the President was born in the United States? and why do u think mitt is not in fulll retreat from this viewpoint?? they believe it too - and if they don't, who cares? they have a birther constituency- enthralled, captivated and voting! I think right now the President is doing a fantastic job of meeting and speeching america - and i love that he is taking a more aggressive stance against the repubs and their policies - letting america know the huge political divide between them and us. but his team - his campaign people - need to be just as aggressive in challenging these longstanding impediments - that are, by and large, racially motivated and as old as america. does President Obama have a team?? and what is the world are they doing?? i feel most of the time that my man is out there all by himself... hey, except for VP Biden!!