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

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63. I am not sure I like the idea of recalls

but I am not sure how they work either. Take any reasonably close election, or even a fairly lopsided one. If somebody wins by 55-40, for example, that's a fairly large victory. But there is also a very large portion of the voters who oppose the winner, many of them very strongly oppose the winner. If it only takes 10% of the voters to force a recall, then it seems like losing candidates, losing parties will always be able to disrupt a function government by putting things in permanent election mode. Because nobody is gonna be liked, or even respected, by all of the people all of the time.

Since yesterday was mother's day, I spoke to my parents. I was a little bit upset to find out the Democratic candidate was from Milwaukee. I spent ten years living in rural Wisconsin, and I am thinking that some of the rest of the state does not really like Milwaukee all that much. I am sorta imagining a voter in Tomah or Wausau or Rice Lake reacting to Milwaukee the way the cowboys react to New York City in a commercial for Pace Picante Sauce. NEW YORK CITY??? (Milwaukee???)

He wouldn't have as large of a population base, but I'd feel better if our candidate was the mayor of Nennah instead of Milwaukee.

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