Walker Wins Wisconsin (and other Primary Election news)
The polls showing Barrett closing the gap were wrong, particularly the poll by left-leaning Public Policy Polling, showing a margin of only 3% for Walker, within the margin of ACORN fraud. (In their lest poll, PPP left out the third fringe candidate, who had been polling at 2%. Wonder why?) Barrett’s release of internal polls showing a dead heat, were, unsurprisingly, lies to generate turnout. A big turnout was supposed to help Barrett—it didn’t. So my prediction of a 4% Walker win was off, as he won by 6.9%, the first governor to survive a recall vote. Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch won by almost the same margin. Liberals took time out from trying to raise a billion dollars for Obama at endless fundraisers to condemn the results as being about big money in politics. Democrats, who were calling Wisconsin a tune-up for November, now say that it will have no impact. They may be right, as exit polls suggest a large number of Walker voters still support Obama (though the exit polls were badly flawed on the out-come). But the economy and growing debt may change voters’ minds by November. Interestingly, the exit polls also showed that single people went over-whelmingly for Barrett, while married people, being more settled and established, with a larger stake in the future, were strongly for Walker. And I think there had to be a number of voters who supported Walker, from households with union members, who were grateful for the secret ballot to keep family peace.
Walker’s victory speech was perfect in tone, no gloating, lots of conciliatory out-reach, a promise to work together. He impresses. He’s now the best-known Governor in America. If he ever changes his title to President, he can thank the SEIU, as Coolidge won because of his stand against the Boston Police Strike of 1919, saying that there was “no right to strike against the public safety, anytime, anywhere,” when he was Governor of Massachusetts.
