What the true picture is....involves the independent voter who goes from one election to the next, and isn’t locked down to one party. The common sense approach to this election was that a recall was never a necessity. The independent voters really felt recall didn’t fit into the big picture of Wisconsin.
I think nothing clear comes out of this election over Romney. There is still a summer ahead, which involves the economy and jobs. At the current rate, conventional wisdom and a common sense approach will make the independent voters again go back and think through the process. If nothing is happening...it’s obviously time to change the direction of the country. So I don’t put much into the polling data.
The Wisconsin voters are fed up of the continuing electioneering, the lies, the whining,the lack of any plan for going forward, etc from the Democrats.
Gov Walker stood up to and beat a sacred cow in Wisconsin that has controlled the legislature and school boards.
This will create a major change and I expect more states to follow. The public unions are bankrupt and losing 50% of its membership. So the DP will lose much of its cash support from the unions.
The independents know that Gov Walker actions have helped Wisconsin in a defict turned surplus without raising taxes and small property tax decreases for the first time in decades.
Wisconsin is expected to support Romney in November. The WI rats are very upset that Obama did not come to Wisconsin. They see the DP as the party of failure.
Just compare the financial picture of WI to Illinois to show what good leadership can do for a state.
Wisconsin under Walker is going “FORWARD”.