CNN Exit Poll: Walker 50% Barrett 50%

[boxman15]

It's down to the wire folks.

ETA: 50/50 for Lt. Gov., too. Turn on CNN now for more details.

ETA2: Obama up 54/43 in Wisconsin.

[bullwinkle428]

1. Kathy Nickolaus, enter stage right!

[davidwparker]

7. You mean she found some more bags of uncounted ballots? n/t

[Honeycombe8]

2. Wow. A cliff hanger. How could it POSSIBLY be that close? You'd think one side or the other

would have at least a small edge.

[pnwmom]

5. At one point the Christine Gregoire/Dino Rossi contest was separated by TEN votes.

So yes, elections can be very close!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002768497

[boxman15]

3. Preibus said he's feeling as good as ever.

Bullshit.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. The Fix is in?

Florida 2000 .... may the better cheater win.

[Skinner]

4. Might be a long night.

:crossingfingers:

[Left Coast2020]

8. Wait a minute!!

I just saw Huffpo and their headline was "Walker Survives"
Tom had 44+% and scumbag had 54/56%

WTF???

[Kurovski]

9. Who says money can't buy love?

Dirty, dirty love.

[aggiesal]

10. WTF is correct ...

It's those damn, non-transparent voting machines.

I believe that if a race is within 6%, it can and will be stolen.

Remember Max Cleland in Georgia senate race of 2002?
Polls leading up to the election and exit polls on election day
showed Cleland with a 6-7% point lead, and he ended up
losing by 7%. That's a 13-14% swing.

Exit polls today showed 50-50, and now Walker has a 12%
lead?

I'm not buying it.

Something happened somewhere.

Watch what happens in the next few days.

[cprise]

11. K&R

[Zoeisright]

12. That race was 100% stolen.

We need to bring in election inspectors from other countries, because this place is now a banana republic.

[LynneSin]

13. I can't believe the double digit margin of Obama supporters vs. Romney

I can't imagine ANYONE who supports Obama would go in there and vote for Walker even if they felt there was no criminal intent on being recalled (the reason given as to why Walker had won). Sorry, Walker isn't some moderate republican like Susan Collins or Arlen Specter (when he was GOP) that enjoyed a large crossover vote from independants and democrats. This was uber hardcore right-wing tea bagger. To say you will vote for Obama and still support Walker is just bonkers.

[ananda]

14. Agree.

I also have trouble thinking that 36% of union members
would have voted for Walker.

[KharmaTrain]

16. I Wouldn't...

There's a growing resentment among private sector unions over those working in public sector ones. The union movement has become very provincial as you didn't see steelworkers or autoworkers or plumbers out there marching...feel public sector unions get advantages they don't.

As one whose been to Wisconsin many times and have a lot of friends who were involved with the recall, you could see a resentment with all the protests and recall. The union movement did a poor job in getting people to understand how this issue related to them...

[shcrane71]

18. +1000 ... EXACTLY

[shcrane71]

19. Moreover, we're just supposed to believe that voters suffer from a mass psychosis.

You have to suspend all logic to vote for a RW wingnut like Walker, and then say you're going to vote for Obama. Remember this is Obama, who has been utterly pilloried by the GOPers.

We're supposed to believe that voters are psychotic. It seems more logical to me that some sort of shenanigans happened.

[Freddie Stubbs]

15. It was monitored by the Justice Department:

http://www.ticklethewire.com/2012/06/05/justice-department-to-monitor-wisconsin-recall-election-in-milwaukee/

[crazylikafox]

17. Unless they did audits of machine counted results vs. hand counted results, it was meaningless

"it's not who votes, it's who counts the votes" that matters. Always remember that.

[shcrane71]

20. I'll remember crazy.

Thanks for the quote. Was that Emma Goldman?

[mzmolly]

21. What were their

findings?