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Posted on 06/05/2012 10:39:24 PM PDT by Steelfish
Despite Scott Walker’s Win, Obama Outpolls Romney In Wisconsin Aaron Blake 06/05/2012
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) is on his way to victory in the state’s recall election tonight, but looking forward to the fall, the Obama campaign may have something positive to glean from the results. While the totals have Walker ahead significantly, exit polls suggest he did it with a healthy dose of support from voters who are leaning toward President Obama in the fall.
In fact, exit polls show Walker winning 17 percent of Obama supporters — much higher than Democrat Tom Barrett’s 6 percent of Mitt Romney supporters. Overall, the electorate that turned out today is backing Obama by a significant margin: 52 percent to 43 percent.
Now, all of this comes with a giant caveat; the exit polls initially were pretty far off, showing a close race between Walker and Barrett. Thus, Republicans are casting doubt that they mean much of anything at all. “Everyone should think twice about using tonight’s Wisconsin exit polling in any fashion,” tweeted Kirsten Kukowski, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee.
The numbers could indeed change further, but even as the exit polls have adjusted to reflect Walker’s win, Obama’s lead has stayed largely the same.
And if they are even close to accurate, Obama would have won the race with the electorate that turned out today.
Republicans have argued that Wisconsin will be a toss-up in the fall — and the Obama campaign notably agreed with them this week, putting the race on its list of toss-ups. For now, though, it might be hard to cast Walker’s win as a big sign of GOP momentum in the presidential election.
Just who are the voters who opted to keep a Republican governor, but would also return Obama ....
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However, that said, the liberals and unions have been effective in forcing we conservatives to create a formidable machine. That machine will still be idling, ready to rev up, in November.
Blake, get in here! Polish this turd - now!
HB,
I was referring to the two Measures passed overwhelmingly by the voters in San Diego and San Jose, that will fundamentally change PE pensions in those two California cities. Point being that Gov. Walker’s efforts in Wisconsin were spreading across the country so that he was no longer “local” in that efforts to curtail PE union largesse are springing up as far away as the Golden State. And for that, we thank him.
HB,
I was referring to the two Measures passed overwhelmingly by the voters in San Diego and San Jose, that will fundamentally change PE pensions in those two California cities. Point being that Gov. Walker’s efforts in Wisconsin were spreading across the country so that he was no longer “local” in that efforts to curtail PE union largesse are springing up as far away as the Golden State. And for that, we thank him.
HB,
I was referring to the two Measures passed overwhelmingly by the voters in San Diego and San Jose, that will fundamentally change PE pensions in those two California cities. Point being that Gov. Walker’s efforts in Wisconsin were spreading across the country so that he was no longer “local” in that efforts to curtail PE union largesse are springing up as far away as the Golden State. And for that, we thank him.
They cannot handle facts. This race was not CLOSE it was not a possible 5 pont difference, it was 10! Look at what we were told yesterday, look at the facts this morning. When Obama gets buried UN the comiing landslide In November, the libs will wake up the next morning saying there must have been a mistake.
Exactly!
Exit polls were wayyyyyyyyy off.
“Any conservative COULD win — but not Romney. “
You may just have the winning poat of this thread.
Walker offered voters union reforms.
Romney has not offered taxpayers anything except a continuation of Obama’s agenda: Romneycare (last week) and wealth redistribution (this week).
GOPe advisors have obviously told him he will only win with a “progrssive” agenda like Obama’s and to ignore “extremist” conservatives.
He’s not going to win over Obama’s voters with socialism and he’s not going to win conservatives with socialism. He’s surrounded himself with liberals and his supporters are defending him rather than pushing on him, so I don’t have much hope for the guy.
A clear-eyed look at this result might well suggest that Wisconsinites who have now voted twice in two years to elect an unabashed conservative as their governor are not thrilled with the weakest Republican Presidential candidate since Alf Landon.
Despite Romney's running against the worst President in American history, it could very well be that Wisconsinites like their Republicans to actually be conservative.
"You're a Communist infiltrator, sleeper-troll Obama-supporter" posters coming in 5...4...3...2...1.
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