Posted on 05/26/2012 1:09:11 PM PDT by pabianice
If Gov. Scott Walker keeps his seat, the state Senate could be Democrats' consolation prize.
With both sides pouring millions of dollars into the Scott Walker recall campaign and the national focus firmly affixed on the Wisconsin GOP governor’s fate, it’s easy to overlook the consolation prize on June 5: the state Senate.
Although they’re getting just a fraction of the attention and cash going into the top of the ticket race, the four Wisconsin state Senate recall elections on the ballot are nothing to sneeze at. Democrats need to flip just one of them to wrest control of the chamber from the GOP — a prize that narrowly escaped them in the contentious round of recalls last year.
Even if Walker keeps his seat — which polls suggest he’s likely to do — flipping the Senate would deliver a measure of solace to Democrats and organized labor. Not only would it create a formidable check on Walker’s agenda, it would provide closure to the crusade they started last year.
At the same time, a GOP sweep of the four races and a Walker win would deal a devastating blow to the left. It would hand a powerful mandate to Walker and his Republican allies in the state Legislature and give the GOP a burst of adrenaline heading into the November elections.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76779.html#ixzz1w0ZbBSci
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SOP MSM mendacity.
GOP winning landslides everywhere for a while until they screw up again is a certainty.
From the article:
Democrats and Republicans alike see the 21st District as the most likely to swap hands. Former state Sen. John Lehman, a Democrat, is trying to reclaim the seat he lost in 2010 to Republican Van Wanggaard, and a mid-April survey conducted by Public Policy Polling for Daily Kos showed the race within the margin of error, with a two-point edge for Wanggaard.
“It’s the only one that we’re really majorly concerned about,” Murphy said. “It’s going to be a nail biter.”
Public polls have been scarce for the state Senate races, but the PPP poll showed Republicans with clear advantages in the other three races.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76779_Page2.html#ixzz1w0cUPGXP
If the libs win one seat and the Senate is tied, who is the tie breaker? Also if Walker vetos anything the libs manage to jam through, what is the procedure to over ride his veto?
I believe one loss will flip control to the Dems according to the article.
Correct, Rep hold a 1 seat advantage at this time.
If the Senate flips to Dem — could the Republican Senators just hide out to avoid votes they’ll lose? Has that ever been tried before? /s
If DemocRATS lose every recall race, than Obama may lose Wisconsin in November.
Stay focused on the Gov race. They want to avoid having somebody in the Gov office who would push investigations of vote fraud in Nov. If they win the Gov office, they win WI.
I think that Wanggaard may well lose, since the district, under the lines being used in the recall race, is very marginal. The GOP legislature made a stupid, easily avoidable mistake when it passed the state redistricting plan with a clause that said that the new maps wouldn’t go into effect until November 2012; had the new maps gone into effect in January 2012, the Dems wouldn’t have even tried to recall Wanggaard, since his district as redrawn is overwhelmingly Republican (instead of having a marginal district in Racine County and a marginal district in Kenosha County as before, the megislature drew a hyper Democrat district that combined the cities of Racine and Kenosha and a heavily GOP district that included suburban and rural areas from each county, with Wanggaard getting the suburban/rural district).
If Van Wanggaard’s district votes to retain Scott Walker, won’t that help? Perhaps Walker can stump for him.
Wisconsin: Walker is nnot the only recall racce; 4 Senators also up for recall
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Of course that would help, but it wouldn’t be dispositive. And besides, I don’t know whether Walker will win big in Racine County.
This time, we’re NOT going to screw up
Hopefully we’d take the Senate back in Nov even if Wanggaard loses which I hope he doesn’t.
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