Does anyone else feel like the current battle is all over? Final shots delivered today?

[rufus dog]

Ahead of the Wisconsin vote the job figures showed what most expected, a stalled recovery with nothing in the pipeline to make any major improvements possible. Two AA Obama surrogates come out defending a reprehensible Republican candidate's past to be followed up by "the first Black President" this week. Market takes a major dive, creating uncertainty. So right after the long weekend, the "official" kick off to summer and the major campaign effort, the powers that be have all the talking points, the acceptable candidate is the problem, we should switch to the other guy.

Follow this up with a Scott Walker loss next week and it will be game over.

I wondered how they could be such fucking assholes against every major voting block except White Males, tonight I am not wondering nearly as much.

[banned from Kos]

1. Walker is a 95% favorite on Intrade - the battle is just now starting.

And don't tell me Intrade has a GOP bias because Obama has been a consistent 58-60% favorite.

[Enrique]

2. I was feeling that way, but then I went out on an errand

I heard drums in the distance and decided to check it out. It turned out to be a small but loud group of protesters in front of the Bank of America branch. Slogans like ' we moved our money you should to' and ' stay away from the big bad banks' .

It' s not over, there are still people in this country, and not Mitt' s corporation-people, but people-people.

[rufus dog]

4. To be clear, I am not suggesting it is all over.

My concern is the initial battle is over, and by that I mean the Democrats in power are not the solution. The solution needs to be grass roots, not only in the U.S., but worldwide. And the leaders of the movement must understand who has the power. Because currently I can safely put a Democratic Mayor, Governor, and a former President in the Wall Street Column. The current President is an unknown but massive changes must be made or his best outcome is a second term with severely limited powers.

[teddy51]

3. NO! It's not going to be over until the closing bell. Walker has so much money backers, that you

can't count him out. The guy personally is a major POS, but he has big money behind him. Much of the bad shit that Walker has done, is being suppressed. I'm hoping that WI voters will see this, but who knows what evil tricks he has up his sleeve.

A New Slogan: WALKER BE GONE.

[PeaceNikki]

6. Make no mistake, Walker has plenty of supporters, too.

I know that seems insane to those of us with fully functioning brains, but he does. I live among them, work with them, shop with them and see and hear them every day. And they vote. Democrats here do a dismal job of showing up in mid-term and special elections. Walker won and Feingold lost in 2010 because 125,00 people who voted for Obama in 2008 couldn't or wouldn't hey to the polls that fateful day. 108k in Milwaukee alone.

This is the most politically divisive place in the nation and it will be a very very right race. I am preparing for a recount already.

[teddy51]

7. No argument, but let's not let our guard down, is all I'm saying. Walker has the Billionaires in

his corner, and Walker does not. Speaking of, where the hell are those Democratic Billionaires, and their check books?

[PeaceNikki]

8. You've seen us Wisconsin Democrats in the past 16 months, right?

The protesters? The Fab 14? The Democratic Assembly members who fought for days and days? The hundreds of us volunteers who stood in the cold Wisconsin winter collecting a million signatures? You think there is a risk we'll let our guard down now?

Not. Gonna. Happen.

[Zorra]

13. Thank you, Nikki, for all your hard work.

It is greatly appreciated. What you all have accomplished, and are trying to close, is vitally important to everyone.

Since I can't be there, I've been donating what I could afford, regularly.

For you, and all the Wisconsin Dems

[bigtree]

5. sounds weak

a couple of days, early in the election? Meh. The campaign hasn't begun yet in the minds of anyone outside our circle of pundits and political junkies.

I do detect a campaign to discourage Democratic voters though -- a familiar tactic of the right.

[doc03]

9. I think with today's news and if Walker

wins Tuesday it's over barring some real gaff by Romney in the debates. Sorry that's the way it looks, I hope I am wrong.

[rufus dog]

10. The momentum is against Walker

That is the positive. But I am past shocked at the media representation and the General Public knowledge in this Country. A major Republican leader is allowed to smirk and say 'our objective is to make him a one term President,' stories are released that basically every major Republican leader got together on inauguration night to plot how to stop the President.

If Dems had done this in 2000 or 2004 it would have been major fucking news. The 'pukes do it in the worst economic catastrophe of our lifetimes and it is basically ignored. I have never seen such Anti-American behavior ignored/covered up.

If they can hold this supposed lead in WI, then the media and pukes will run amok.

[Mojorabbit]

11. +1000 nt

[doc03]

12. The Obama campaign has to saturate the air with Turtle Head

making that statement so nobody can forget. Then to top off what the Republicans and the
media do we have so called surrogates like Bill Clinton going out and saying we should leave Romney's
time at Bain and as governor off the table. I guess that shouldn't surprise us coming from the guy that
gave us NAFTA and repealed Glass Steagall.