Actually that she only received 750000 votes is the real story. There are 325,000 unionized state employees lets figure 3/4 are supporters with spouses which will net approximately 500,000 votes right there. That combined with other sympathetic union supporters and 750,000 is not unreasonable.
Living here at ground zero (Dane County) I thought she was a shoo in. The unions pulled out all of the stops and out spent Prosser’s campaign 3.5 to 1 and still lost.
The real take away is even after unions spent $3,000,000 they still lost in a state that is the home of progressive philosophy. It shows that the Tea Party is a real force and has staying power.....
Good.
I think you bring up a great point that people are sometimes missing here as it relates to the unions.
If this 7,000 vote margin holds up, this would be a massive victory for the Tea Party.
You had at least 500,000 union family members coming out to vote for their cushy union jobs. As you say, add in another 250,000 liberal activists and there is your tally for her. Our problem in Wisconsin isn’t that we’ve got too many liberals, but that we’ve got too many State and local employees on the dole for a State our size.
Those union peolple have never been told “no” until this Spring. They assume that the majority of the State backs them. They don’t.