Posted on 10/27/2014 5:40:21 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- President Barack Obama is making a rare appearance on the campaign trail just one week before Election Day in an effort to help a Democratic challenger oust Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker from office.
Walker is a top target of Democrats in the midterm elections after he angered organized labor by enacting a measure in 2011 that reduced the power of public sector unions in the state. Obama was scheduled to campaign Tuesday evening with Democrat Mary Burke, a former Trek Bicycles executive and state commerce secretary, who is running close against Walker, a potential 2016 presidential candidate.
Polls show the race is deadlocked with very few voters undecided, which makes it even more important for Walker and Burke to get their backers to the polls. Wisconsin hasn't voted for a Republican for president since Ronald Reagan in 1984, but Walker won in both 2010 and in a recall election in 2012. Just five months after that June 2012 recall win for Walker, Wisconsin handed Obama a 7-point re-election victory.
Walker, during a campaign stop near Madison on Monday morning, said Obama's visit and one by former President Bill Clinton last week, also in Milwaukee, shows that Burke is all about turning more Democrats out to vote, not attracting any of the few undecided voters that remain. First lady Michelle Obama also campaigned for Burke recently in both Madison and Milwaukee.
"They're trying to drive up turnout figuring they're not having much impact of convincing any more persuadable independent voters and it's more about turnout," Walker said. Walker, who launched a bus tour Saturday for the final 10 days of the race, said he was trying to compete for undecided voters all across the state.
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“No better ‘boots on the ground’ than you, Diana! How’s it look from there?”
I work with a LOT of Libs - I’ve YET to hear ONE of them praise Mary Burke in ANY way. They don’t even MENTION that there’s a race on!
Madistan and Milwaukeestan are going to go blue, no doubt - the rest of the state, outside of this stupid, LibTard bubble I live in is looking red.
I’ll be VERY surprised if Governor Walker doesn’t pull this off. I just hope he wins with enough margin to make it truly a WIN. No ‘hanging chads.’ No funny business. :)
durbin in trouble?
No, not DirtBag. Barring a miracle, he's safe.
Governor Pat Quinn is an inept victim of his own idiocy, propped up by the machine that brought you Blagojevich. The daughter of the machine leader is the Attorney General (Lisa Madigan), who just can't seem to find corruption anywhere in Illinois! Can you believe it?
Years ago Quinn was a noisy political outsider that only the (liberal) media took seriously; his claim to fame was forcing corrupt regulators onto the utilities.
He's been accused of mismanaging a slush fund; the grand jury convenes in the next few days which is hilarious because the feds have (so far) held the legislative investigators at bay.
One hopes that Obola will spend long days with Quinn; it's a sign of Quinn's desperation that he does this in spite of the risk in the polls.
Yep, that is what I was thinking.
I was thinking of buying a new Trek, but I’m not supporting Trek now.
Thank you! :)
Note also that the National GOP hasn’t given Scott Walker jack.
how I wish they would use current photographs of these candidates...that one of Hillary is 25 years ago...come on lets get current...THE HAG WILL BE GOING INTO HER 70’S COME 2017..and her health records need to be demanded!!!
yep she had plastic work done, but the body is what you need to show...tubby, and unstable on her feet and speaks ‘fairy tales’, then her handlers come out and say........’WHAT Hillary MEANT TO SAY WAS’............... AND SO ON AND SO ON..HUSSEINS HANDLERS DO THE SAME FOR HIM...’WHAT HE REALLY MEANT WAS’
durbin in trouble...
OH WOULDN’T THAT BE SUPER FANTASTIC? HOW I HOPE SO....
Obama says there’s always time for Peters.
Read today Obola campaigned for one ‘Rat
In next poll had lost 9 points...........
Chris Christie...he’s in charge of the RGA.
Well that explains why Ken Cuccinelli lost. Money raised by the GOP in Virginia for the governor’s race ended up in New Jersey instead.
Ouch!
Enemy’s of the State!
Really? I remember a number of losing causes (like the Olympics) where Obama flew in like the magical fairy of success... to no avail. This is probably the only race where he's been invited!
Chris Christie is in charge of the RGA people think he’s dragging his feet so he can clear the field for his own presidential run. Who knows.
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