Wisconsin was a referendum on the recall process [View all]

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(this became very disjointed, but I am not able to do much editing, sorry)

6 in 10 Wisconsin voters thought that a recall should only be used for 'official misconduct". Some here will argue that that happened in Wisconsin, but the point is that, regardless of the politics there were some in Wisconsin who thought there never should have been a recall. Many who may have been partial to Barrett may have stayed home or even voted for Walker because they saw the recall as an abuse of the system. Of those who voted Obama had a 7 point lead (51-44) over Romney. Walker won by 7 points. That is a large number of voters who say they support the President, but voted for Walker.

Elections have consequences. The Wisconsin Dems lost big in 2010. This is not about politics, I am probably more liberal than at least 2/3rds of you. Its about the process. I don't care what the Rs did (I do care in the micro, but I am making a point about the macro). I know that there are allegations about Walker, but at this point they are just allegations. Remember back to the Clinton Impeachment, how did you feel about that? It was all about partisan politics, it was wrong and it was bad for the country and so is Wisconsin.

I think that there is a much larger story here than Wisconsin. I would not be surprised at all if we started to see a slew of recalls after 2012. Next time the challenger may be a Republican who is able to out spend an incumbent Democrat because of one or two large donors. In that case the challenger could easily win.