Voters take to the polls as Wisconsin holds the nation's largest ever
recall elections in River Hills August 9, 2011. REUTERS/Darren Hauck
Posted on 08/10/2011 4:06:46 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
LA CROSSE, Wis (Reuters) - A day after Wisconsin held the largest round of recall elections in U.S. history, analysts parsing the bruising, expensive and inconclusive battles have a gloomy prediction for the rest of the country.
Get used to it, the 2012 national election will be nasty.
Politics, said Mordecai Lee, a governmental affairs professor at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, is now "a battle of inches, it is a battle that never ends, it is a battle to the death."
Wisconsin's recalls, and the fight earlier this year over the union rights of public-sector workers that triggered them, have highlighted the wide gulf that separates Republican and Democrat voters nationwide.
The results, which neither party can claim as a clear-cut victory, have also exposed the lack of stability and predictability in U.S. government -- a reason S&P cited last week in downgrading the U.S. AAA credit rating.
Republicans won four of the six Wisconsin recall elections on Tuesday, just enough to cling to a state Senate majority.
"What we saw yesterday was basically a very divisive election to conclude a very divisive recall process in response to a very divisive set of policies enacted by the new Republican governor and legislature in Wisconsin," said Alan Abramowitz, an Emory University political science professor.
He sees the polarization continuing through 2012, a feature of American politics since the red-state-versus-blue divide of George W. Bush's disputed presidential election in 2000.
The Wisconsin fight was triggered by Republican Governor Scott Walker's controversial, and successful, campaign to strip teachers, nurses, and other government employees of collective bargaining power they had enjoyed for five decades.
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Wow, prejudiced to the left much???
What a waste of good ink (or bandwidth as the case may be).
LOL.. I hear ya on the krud. I yank a lot off stuff of Good ol’ Yahoo,, I prefer snagging Reuters and AFP stuff from them.. reliable servers, decent sized excerpt limits.. and the pics.. Ohhhh the pics.
Oh, I get it now, it was Governor Walker's fault. Self-serving jerk this esteemed prof.
I’m guessing that the last sentence was added by the poster.
If nothing else it demonstrates the need to restrict the reasons for which a recall election should be allowed.
Voters take to the polls as Wisconsin holds the nation's largest ever
recall elections in River Hills August 9, 2011. REUTERS/Darren Hauck
“analysts parsing the bruising, expensive and inconclusive battles”
One thing is conclusive the Senate is still Republican
Translation: it will be “messy” because Republicans won . . . again. Get used to it. You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. Not like what’s gonna hit you in 2012.
Politics, .... is now “a battle of inches, it is a battle that never ends, it is a battle to the death.”
The host must destroy the parasite class to survive, or the parasite class will destroy the host.
Isn't that what's going on in London?
Probably for the same reasons that the whole article is slanted to the left. Giving a neutral treatment to any aspect of the spin would be unacceptable.
Jeff:
That was my comment about winning one of the two recalls. There are quote marks around the email from Daily Kos.
Note: this topic is from 8/10/2011.Thanks NormsRevenge.
...the 2012 national election will be nasty... Wisconsin's recalls, and the fight earlier this year over the union rights of public-sector workers that triggered them, have highlighted the wide gulf that separates Republican and Democrat voters nationwide. The results, which neither party can claim as a clear-cut victory, have also exposed the lack of stability and predictability in U.S. government -- a reason S&P cited last week in downgrading the U.S. AAA credit rating. Republicans won four of the six Wisconsin recall elections on Tuesday, just enough to cling to a state Senate majority.
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