Bummed about Walker's lead in the Marquette poll? Consider the following points:
1) The Walkerbots have already spent more than $20 mil from the Primary season through the present, and the Republican base is super-energized, with 92% of Rs strongly behind him. Nevertheless, they can't get the poll number over 50%.
2) The Barrett campaign is just starting, and the first major ad buys were this past weekend (I think).
3) The survey was of "likely voters." People who in the past were "unlikely voters--" low-income single moms about to be cut off from BadgerCare, for instance--may suddenly turn into "likely voters."
4) The Republicans have enough money to totally dominate the "air war," but like most wars, this one is likely to be won on the ground. That means shoe leather. We have thousands of volunteers on the streets. They have virtually none.
We all gotta get out there and get into the fight of our lives, remembering that in many cases it's literally a fight for people's lives. We can do it.
Remember this--no matter how little money we have, the Wisconsin Progressives of 1900 had less. And they won. By 1905, Wisconsin was the first state to outlaw corporate contributions to politicians, with the nation following in 1907. In 1911, we enacted unemployment insurance and a number of other protections for working people.
We can do it agan.
The world demands that we do it again.
Disclosure: I stole a lot of this stuff from John Nichols & Mike McCabe.
