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Panich52

(5,829 posts)
Tue Feb 17, 2015, 12:20 PM Feb 2015

2016 ambitions seen in Walkers push for university cuts in Wisconsin


The New York Times: 2016 ambitions seen in Walkers push for university cuts in Wisconsin
By Julie Bosman

Critics of Gov. Scott Walker say he is capitalizing on a view that is popular among conservatives like those in the Iowa caucuses: that state universities are elite bastions of liberal academics.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/us/politics/scott-walker-university-wisconsin.html?ref=politics

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Because, as we all know, "truth has a liberal bias"
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2016 ambitions seen in Walkers push for university cuts in Wisconsin (Original Post) Panich52 Feb 2015 OP
The good news is that such cuts will not play well in a general election. BillZBubb Feb 2015 #1
, blkmusclmachine Feb 2015 #2

BillZBubb

(10,650 posts)
1. The good news is that such cuts will not play well in a general election.
Tue Feb 17, 2015, 12:58 PM
Feb 2015

They may help Walker with the wingnuts, but middle class people will see such cuts as asinine.

Of course the Democrats would have to make an issue of it first, and missing opportunities like that seem to be a Democratic habit.

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