Let's Call It: Who Will Win Wisconsin Tuesday?

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18. I Hope And Pray I'm Wrong, But I Think Walker Will Win

I hope and pray that I'm wrong, but I was seriously disappointed by the 2010 elections and am very worried that it's a predictor of how this year's elections will go. Not only did so many Tea-bagger reactionaries and bigots enrolled in the GOP turn out to vote, but all too many of the people who turned out to vote in Barack Obama stayed home.

I lost faith in the youth vote this last election. With the exception of the young, energetic, and politically-active who turned out to campaign for President Obama, congressional and state Democrats (Hooray for you guys, BTW!) and have a VERY realistic idea as to what's at stake in this election and the following ones for the next sixteen years, the majority of the under-35 potential voter pool has shown themselves to be uninformed, lazy, and inattentive. They proved it by staying at home on their backsides when the Republicans came back and started hacking at education funding, and they're proving it right now as the Religious Right is waging a very successful campaign not only against abortion, but ALL birth control, and the regular Republican Party is getting ready to let the interest rates for student loans for college accellerate towards the stratosphere.

As for the rest of the electorate, I'm worried that all too many Wisconsites think that they're doing all right despite the fact their jobs and their standards of living are already on the line, and that they'll only discover that either staying at home or voting Republican was a bad call AFTER Walker and Company gets another term or two to fulfil their right-wing agenda.