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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NOTE: Burke has donated $5 million to her own campaign, a third of the $15 million she’s raised in the effort to knock off Walker.
Ping-A-Ling!
I think Walker is in good shape.
Baraq’s record on endorsements (everything from securing the Olympics to political candidates) is near 100% fail.
durbin in trouble?
I cannot BELIEVE it’s believed to be this CLOSE of a race! Walker HANDILY won the recall election, and Life is Friggin’ GOOD in Wisconsin now, THANKS TO HIM!
Sorry, it’s HuffPost, but it’s a good map:
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2012/wisconsin-recall-results
so where is the dang Rep party...Walker has been begging them for money for TV ads....so much for the Republican Party!
Obama wouldn’t be lending his name to a losing cause. He’s going because they think they have this one. All the bellyaching going on between Walker and Christie is another tell there are problems there.
Scott Walker is rubbing his hands and saying “Thanks, Barack”!
They plan to cheat big in WIsconsin. After they cheat to the win, they will claim it was Obama that saved their bacon.
He has lousy coat tails.
With any luck, he will stay the week.
No better “boots on the ground” than you, Diana! How’s it look from there?
Or maybe Scott Walker is saying “Go ahead...make my day.”
We’ve had Mooch and both Clintons in Michigan over that last few weeks. Obama will be here on the 1st.
The demoRAT welfare vote fraud machine must already have it in the bag or they wouldn’t have invited Hussein to campaign.
Good job Obama! It only cost the Dem you supported in Maryland 9%.
Burke is having Obama here to gain more of the black vote. Gee, good thing they squashed voter ID since Democrats claim most blacks don’t have ID.
Voter fraud will run rampant here next Tuesday. Blatant cheating will be ignored. I’m actually a little worried for my state that Burke will win.
B’rock Obola gives his Ich bin ein Cheeseheader to bring out the base in Milwaukee and Madtown. Sad little man he is.
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