UPDATE 1, 6:35 CT: Turnout in Madison is on track to be "one of the highest in state history for a partisan primary, adding to the already historic nature of the recall of Gov. Scott Walker."
UPDATE 2, 8:08: The polls have closed. I'm following the results at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, here, but nothing's in yet.
UPDATE 3, 9:55: Barrett obviously won... by a lot... so my prediction is shot all to hell. The most interesting number is Walker votes versus all the Democratic votes combined. The strong support for Walker is notable, since he wasn't really opposed, and Republicans could cross over and attempt to influence the Democratic race. So far, most of the evening, Walker has been ahead of that total Democratic vote. Right now, there are 496,936 votes combined for the Democrats, and Walker's lagging at 475,019 — which is 21,927 back, but the point is still clear. Why bother to come out and vote for Walker? Why not cross over and affect the competitive Democratic race?
UPDATE 4, 10:21: In the comments, B astutely analyzes:
The way the numbers are working out, It appears that the total vote for the dems will not even reach what would have been the 800k+ threshold figure to even have a recall. And that ignores any spoiler votes for Falk by Walker supporters.
Does make one wonder, doesn't it. Did that many people, around 200k, decide not to show up, change their minds, sign the recall petition just to get some jerk out of their face, or....
Perhaps we are seeing the real recall petition total here. The total when you can only vote once. And for yourself. Or at least not vote as often or for as many people as you could sign the petition..
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 202 of 202Primary turnout was up. But hey, what do little details like that matter. More = less. Just throw it out there. Who cares!
Turnout was WAY below the alleged number of signatures in the recall petitions.
If they were all on the up and up, why did about 40% of the signers NOT vote for Democrats here, garage?
Apparently 18,000 Republicans changed their mind about Walker and voted for Riggs-- all is not lost!
And nearly 400,000 Democrats changed their mind about the recall and didn't vote against Walker.
Odd.
OTher unions already agreed to the extra contributions before their contracts were all cancelled by Walker
Which makes the mad dash to sign new contracts and tieing in all of the benefits possible in some Progressive areas of WI really hard to fathom.
You know, since unions were willing to give them up.
Can you name what unions SPECIFICALLY were compromising? And how many unions in total were doing so? Because the only offers I know of weren't made by people who could have them honored in the first place.
They didn't agree to the union--busting provisions, which Barrett has said he will restore.
BWA HA HA!
Sure he will. First thing he will do, no doubt.
...sure, his only source of credibility at all is using those reforms to balance Milwaukee's budget, but hey...
The vast majority of Wisconsinites like the public school teachers.
They love being forced to pay dramatically more for their health insurance because the unions demanded they work with a union shop that sold the insurance and considerably higher rates than anybody else?
Do you have polling to back that up?
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