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BREAKING NEWS: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker survives recall effort, NBC News projects [ticker]
MSNBC ^ | June 05, 2012

Posted on 06/05/2012 6:55:14 PM PDT by Steelfish

MSNBC CALLS WALKER WIN: RECALL LOSES [ 22% Reporting Walker 61%, Barrett=38%]

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: milwaukee; scottwalker; tombarrett; unions; unionthugs; walker; wi2012; wirecall; wisconsin; wisconsinshowdown
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To: newnhdad
they’re blaming the loss on “outside money’...

The talking points seem to be that the unions were outspent 8 to 1 (yeah, as if).
Reminds me of a story about Lincoln being asked his estimate of Rebel troops; he answered one million two hundred thousand! The audience gasped in horror and asked him to explain. Lincoln responded: "We have 400,000 soldiers and everytime McClellan runs from a battle, he reports being outnumbered 3 to 1"

41 posted on 06/05/2012 7:12:44 PM PDT by stormhill
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To: scooby321

Yep, they’re all going to scream about money being spent, but none of them will mention the amount of money the unions spent on this. I suspect that the Dems collectively spent at least as much as the Republicans—when all spending is counted.


42 posted on 06/05/2012 7:12:49 PM PDT by Sudetenland (Anybody but Obama!!!!)
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To: pabianice

“I also love that people polled LIED to the pollsters, both in national polls and in the exit polls. The exit polls called it even. They lied, too! Bye-bye pollsters!”

Maybe the pollsters lied not the people


43 posted on 06/05/2012 7:13:24 PM PDT by ari-freedom
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To: reefdiver

What’s in the water in Wisconsin’s Bayfield County where 60% of the vote goes to Barrett? This area of WI has to be populated with union thugs, transvestites,


44 posted on 06/05/2012 7:13:24 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Steelfish

Congrats from across the pond!

That’s Michigan, and not England.


45 posted on 06/05/2012 7:13:38 PM PDT by VanDeKoik (If case you are wondering, I'm STILL supporting Newt.)
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To: Williams

National and exit polls had it a squeeker. People lied to the poll-takers! HAHAHAHAHAHA!


46 posted on 06/05/2012 7:13:52 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: Steelfish

Survives? Looks more like “Overwhelms.”


47 posted on 06/05/2012 7:13:54 PM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: ConservativeMan55
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48 posted on 06/05/2012 7:14:24 PM PDT by SmithL (If you reward certain behavior, don't be surprised when you see more of that behavior)
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To: Steelfish

Rachel Madcow just actually said, “it’s hard to see how this is a bad night for Obama even if it’s a bad night for Mayor Barret.”

Uhm, you keep holding onto that when this country sweeps Zero out of office.


49 posted on 06/05/2012 7:14:59 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: reefdiver
Meanwhile over at MSNBC Larry is citing an exit poll showing people prefer Obama over Romney by a big number. The exit polls were not too good tonight and they are getting excited over this one!
50 posted on 06/05/2012 7:14:59 PM PDT by tapatio (In memory of my Dad 5-27-26 2-4-2010)
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To: Steelfish
Extra credit question:

How many tens of thousands of fraudulent votes did the Dems create for this failed attempt to steal the election?

51 posted on 06/05/2012 7:15:26 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: pabianice
They waited to call it until Walker was so far ahead that the tens of thousands of fraudulent Dem votes could no longer steal the election. I also love that people polled LIED to the pollsters, both in national polls and in the exit polls. The exit polls called it even. They lied, too! Bye-bye pollsters!

You're declaring victory over a strawman, mostly.

1) The RCP average of the scientific pre-election polling was Walker by 6.7%; no poll since February had Barrett leading. Those polls are likely to end up being extremely accurate.

12) The actual CNN exit poll was 52%-48% in favor of Walker; the only biased thing was how CNN and the media spun the exit poll results to "neck and neck." The exit polls may end up a few points off, but they won't be drastically off.

3) The final margin is not going to be anywhere close to being 60-40%. As with every election, dense urban areas take longer to count, and they lean heavily to the left. Very little of Milwaukee has been counted, for example.

52 posted on 06/05/2012 7:16:24 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: markomalley

Bump!


53 posted on 06/05/2012 7:18:33 PM PDT by rdl6989 (January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I turned on MSNBC, and Lawrence Douchebag O’Donnell led off his show by saying the big winner from today’s recall election is....Barack Obama. He then said that 53% of the voters today said that they would vote for Obama in the presidential election. I don’t see how a large majority of voters will return Walker to office but then vote against Walker’s agenda by re-electing Obama. Makes no sense.


54 posted on 06/05/2012 7:19:43 PM PDT by RightFighter (It was all for nothing.)
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To: Steelfish
Meanwhile on MSNBC...

I haven't seen this many sad faces since visiting a hospital waiting room. Maddow is almost crying. Walker won only because of millions of out of state dollars (presumably from Klan and NRA members). This means nothing for November. Obama is comfortably ahead in WI and Romney will lose. Unions remain unscathed. They are utterly shell-shocked.

55 posted on 06/05/2012 7:20:17 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: The Cajun
Anybody have reports on Chrissie *Tingles* Matthews?

This is Tommy Tingles' watching MSLSD make the call for Governor Walker.


56 posted on 06/05/2012 7:20:23 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Steelfish

Where’s Fat Ed??


57 posted on 06/05/2012 7:23:01 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: Shady
I just heard Sgt Schultz go mental.

And just how, pray tell, can you discern the difference from his normal banter. It is a sweet night, and I have just cracked a cold one which I now raise in celebration. There is nothing like the smell of liberal meltdown in the morning...

58 posted on 06/05/2012 7:23:41 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: RightFighter
The delusional MSNBC crowd does not realize that middle America has more hatred for Obama than anyone realizes. I have had at least 10 people tell me that they regret voting for Obama, more than any other vote in the lifetime.

Tonight was a harbringer that Obama loses big in November.

59 posted on 06/05/2012 7:24:26 PM PDT by catfish1957 (My dream for hope and change is to see the punk POTUS in prison for treason)
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To: newnhdad

I am so enjoying their misery. Schadenfreude!

Yes O’Donnell declared The One the winner tonight. That’s because:

1. Exit polling gives Obama 52% and Romney 41%
2. But exit polling also indicated that the Walker race was too close to call. None of the Stasi media has made that connection.
3. Thirty minutes later the media was calling it for Walker.
4. But of course that was because Walker outspent those poor unions by a factor of 7.
5. Obama knows how to tweet.


60 posted on 06/05/2012 7:24:32 PM PDT by A'elian' nation (Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. Jacques Barzun)
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