Walker up by 9-points in new WI Recall poll, WI Dems upset with DNC

[BlueDemKev]

46. Tom Barrett

You have a point, but the fact is that Barrett would have won in 2010 had more progressives gone out to vote. Barrett received more than a half-million votes LESS than Barack Obama did in 2008, while Walker received barely 100,000 votes less than John McCain did. While certainly some of Obama's votes were from "swing" voters who turned around and voted for Walker two years later, it's a fair assessment that apathy among progressives was the decisive factor.

The point is this....I cannot imagine there are a whole lot of Barrett voters from 2010 who would be willing to switch their support to Walker now. This means, Barrett should win if progressives simply get out and vote this time. But they don't appear to be doing so. After all that Scott Walker has done to working class folks in Wisconsin, one would expect every progressive in the state to be camping outside their voting sites a week ahead of time! President Obama should not have to go and beg these folks to get their asses to the polls on June 5!