Posted on 04/01/2011 8:19:53 PM PDT by Lando Lincoln
I don’t know the recall law they are using, but there are 33 Wisconsin State Senators.
Here’s Kanapke’s district: http://legis.wisconsin.gov/lrb/bb/05bb/82-83.pdf
It is made up of 3 representative districts in which 2/3 are held by Republicans. Lacrosse is a dense district served by a Democratic representative.
Here’s Kanapke’s Republican primary in which he garnered 39,691. If he can hold that vote total he’ll be re-elected.
http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/article_a7e4d7a0-c086-11df-a7a8-001cc4c002e0.html
There are only 21,700 on that petition and the polling of those who’d vote against Kanapke is only of voters (that’s as reported by MoveOn.Org and you cannot find the poll on Survey USA’s site, nor could I find it on the web). It is not a public poll.
Many of the pro-union polls are of all American adults. What really matters is voters and the only voter that matters in polling is a likely voter, particularly one who voted in the most recent election.
Here’s more and it appears to be a fairly competitive district.
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Dan_Kapanke
That will be important if that happens. It will simply add to the meme that Dems are too corrupt to run Wisconsin.
I would ask the person who would replace him if he too would run away?
Here’s the 3 “vulnerable” Dems:
No/little chance:
Robert Wirch won big.
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Robert_Wirch#2008
Jim Holperin is vulnerable.
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Jim_Holperin#2008
Hansen won by 2 to 1.
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Dave_Hansen#2008
Our guys look a lot more vulnerable than the Dems. Hopper won by a hair. Is there some sense of likely voters switching big time against Dems and for Republicans?
This is the last line of defense. If they succeed in recalling these senators and retake control of the senate, they win.
Since the court has ruled the law is not lawful the governor should simply start laying off people.
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