Inside Scoops from Battlefield Wisconsin [View all]

[Jackpine Radical]

Some quick notes as I take a break between phone banking & going back to hang out with Tom Barrett for a while:

Kathleen Vinehout (State Senator, Primary candidate for Governor & one of the Wisconsin 14) was at the Dem HQ in Chippewa Flls today, and had some very interesting inside information.

Kathleen, BTW, is obviously pouring her heart & soul into this campaign, trying to get her erstwhile opponent & everyone else on the Dem ticket elected. But back to those scoops:

First, she confirmed that the Marquette poll is BS. The oversampling accusation is correct. Current internal polling by the Barrett campaign indicates that Barrett is tied at 49-49. These are unbiased numbers upon which campaign decisions are made, will not be released to the public, & therefore can be assumed to be as accurate as possible.

Second, she said that although Obama is not on the scene, OFA is (very quietly) loaning out their infrastructure to the campaign effort. This is apparently very massive, and they ARE pouring funds into selected races. One of these is the 23d Senate District (Kristen Dexter). They just dumped in $200k to Kristen's campaign because internal polls show her gaining on Terry "Mouldy" Moulton. They are no doubt doing the same in other races. In fact, this OFA action is so quiet that Kathleen herself only found out by accident, when she noticed that a group had a Washington DC area code & pursued the inquiry.

That's all for now from the front. I'll write more when I get more information this evening from Tom.


Here's a pic of Kathleen I took at Bobfest a couple of weeks ago: