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Clerks Report Turnout in Wisconsin Recall Could be Near the level of a Presidential Election

WisPolitics reports, various city clerks in recall districts  say that turnout could be near the level of a presidential election — though this is not true across the board, with others being closer to the highly contested state Supreme Court election this past April.

 

TPM reports:

UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin gave TPM his rough estimate for turnout among the voting-age population, though given the unusual nature of these elections any such prediction is only tentative. “We saw 35 percent in the Supreme Court race in April. I think we could go 40, and there are some sources in the state talking about it going in the mid-40s, which would be closer to November’s turnout.”

This is going to be a very close race and at this point results cannot be predicted due to a lack of polling data. The money funneled into Wisconsin has been called unprecedented, with America closely watching the Walker-Koch-Fitz state.

Daily Kos reports:

 

Going by public polling, Franklin sees incumbent Republicans Dan Kapanke and Randy Hopper as the most vulnerable, with Luther Olsen and Alberta Darling as the next two close seats that Democrats could potentially grab away from the Republicans.

 

Republicans up for recall have been antsy and rightfully so. Dan Kapanke stated a secretly recorded conversation with La Crosse County Republicans on May 25th, that he is hoping that all the public employees in his district “are sleeping” on election day.

 

Canvassers are doing their part; the rest is up to the voters in Wisconsin.

Get out and vote.

 

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By Anomaly – August 9, 2011

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  • Driverside

    People in Wisconsin like beer and bratwurst, not tea and caviar. I hope the teabaggers are sent packing and Wisconsinites get their government back.

  • Montana

    Never Bet against the United States, watch out Republicans or the ones that call themselves the Bag of Tea Party, we are coming for you! The win in New York was the beginning but now it’s Wisconsin, next target our nation. The Republicans are like the “Chicken Little’s” always saying that the “Sky is Falling”, like the same ones that were the “Chicken Hawks” (“W” Wars), big talk no courage.

    Generations have worked hard and sacrificed much for the country to reach this point (individuals and collectively as Unions!), and with further hard work and sacrifice (along with our relentless self-doubt) the United States will rise again, we do not tire and we are coming back, no matter what “Standard and Poor’s AKA “Scandal and Snores”, Fake News and the Republicans (especially the Bag of Tea Party) “Chicken Little’s” lackies keep saying about our nation.

    The United States, favors creativity wherever it can be found. We’re apostles of prosperity and defenders of the free exchange of ideas and when more people in more countries are free to rise, to invent, to communicate, to dissent, it’s not the doom of United States leadership, it’s the triumph of the American way.

    You know what this current crowd of GOP liars want is to turn the United Sates into China, where only a few giant corporations run things, they own the factories, the apartments, the grocery stores, the gas stations, the newspaper and magazine publications, the radio stations, the television stations and you pay them and they get all the benefits, and if you do not like it go jump off cliff. Well some Chinese workers seeing that as individuals that they cannot progress have done just that by committing suicide.

    The current crowd of GOP liars want to steal Medicare and Social Security from the elderly, they want to abolish a woman’s right to choose and have control over her own body, they want to abolish collective bargaining rights for our Unions, and on top of it all they want to blame the poor, the middle class, the public sector workers and Unions for a recession that the Republicans created (Thanks to the Dullard “W”), while their beloved “Fat cats” continue to pay themselves exorbitant salaries, bonuses, fringe benefits.

    Many tell me that the economy was great under “W”, but when you are cooking the books and have taken TWO of the most expensive WARS OF CHOICE in our history, “OFF THE BOOKS”, well now you see the results that will be with us for the next three decades. Remember “W” learned how to “cook the books” with his “No Child left behind” program from the great State of Texas (Rick Perry, cooks the books too), but hey the Republicans never lies right (Just about Wars and everything else)? Please, tell me another!

    Boehner Got 98% the USA GOT A DOWNGRADE

    http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/174925-boehner-i-got-98-percent-of-what-i-wanted-in-debt-deal

    • http://FreakOutNation.com Anomaly100

      @Montana, That would be a great title. I love it.

  • novenator

    That is pretty epic, and I’m frankly amazed that the pro-worker, pro-democracy forces have been able to compete in the polls. Despite the tyrannical shit the conservatives have been doing, they have been flooding the state with corporate money to brainwash people on the airwaves. Luckily, people don’t have THAT short of a memory in the state, and will give the pro-corporate, anti-worker politicians a pasting in this recall.

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