Perpetual Fundraiser Obama Claims ‘Presidential Responsibilities’ Prevented Him from Helping in WI Recall

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  June 12th at 09:01 AM  | 

Yesterday morning, President Obama made time on his busy schedule to give brief interviews to reporters from several “swing” states. The markets hit included Roanoke, VA; Jacksonville, FL; Greenville, SC; Sioux City, IA; Green Bay, WI; Colorado Springs, CO; Reno, NV; and Fresno, CA (note: if all of these states are actually in play, then Obama is obviously in a bigger world of hurt than | Read More »

Taking a Second Look at those #WIRecall Exit Polls–And Other Things

By: Jake (Diary)  |  June 6th at 03:46 PM  | 

Promoted from the diaries by Jeff In their frantic attempt to glean something positive from last night’s shellacking in Wisconsin, we found the Obama campaign clinging (bitterly?) to the results of the exit polls. According to them, Obama was still beating Romney 51-45% in the state. Unfortunately, for them at least, they don’t even get this satisfaction anymore. Michael Barone has done the analyzing: It | Read More »

The Whupping in Wisconsin: Seven Key Conclusions

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  June 6th at 04:46 AM  | 

“Now I know what MSNBC means by lean forward. I leaned forward as I was viewing, watching for signs of possible coronaries live on TV.” Last night in Wisconsin, Democracy died because Republicans spent a bunch of money and Wisconsin saw record voter turnout levels across the state where they decisively sided with the incumbent Republican Governor against the ongoing childish assault on representative democracy | Read More »

Today is Election Day in Wisconsin

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  June 5th at 04:46 AM  | 

It always makes me nervous for Republicans to be so giddy headed into an election. As we’ve seen from the President, overconfidence is a bad thing. Scott Walker could still lose. People must turn out to vote. Today is election day in Wisconsin and if you are a RedState Reader in that state, go vote. One of the things I hate about special elections is | Read More »

Preparing for Tuesday’s Day of DOOM in Wisconsin.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 3rd at 09:30 PM  | 

Some interesting happenings at today’s Wisconsin’s Brown County Dairy Breakfast*: [Democratic gubernatorial recall candidate Tom] Barrett was greeted warmly by some of the breakfast-goers — at least one man told him Barrett he was voting for him, prompting Barrett to joke, “Give him a lot of really good food” — but others reacted differently, telling Barrett they were voting for [Republican Governor Scott] Walker and | Read More »

AP: Bureau of Labor Statistics confirms Wisconsin job growth. #wirecall

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 30th at 10:00 PM  | 

Readers might remember – certainly The Weekly Standard [TWS] did – that beleaguered Democratic Wisconsin gubernatorial recall candidate Tom Barrett has called into question Republican Scott Walker’s contention that the Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS] had reported Wisconsin had actually gained jobs in 2011, instead of the loss of jobs that had been previously reported from another source.  Actually, ‘called into question’ is too mild | Read More »

Wisconsin: Barrett Fails to Play Big in First Debate

By: briansikma (Diary)  |  May 26th at 10:02 PM  | 

MILWAUKEE – Sitting in the pressroom before Friday night’s televised debate between Governor Scott Walker (R) and Mayor Tom Barrett (D) the question was: will Tom Barrett do anything to change the momentum of the race? Since emerging from a divisive primary fight on May 8 that saw him trounce Big Labor’s candidate of choice, Kathleen Falk, Barrett has been working to shift the momentum | Read More »

Democrats Lie About Violent Crime to Beat Scott Walker

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 24th at 08:45 AM  | 

They thought it would help Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, running as the Democrat against Governor Scott Walker in the Wisconsin Recall. If the headlines said Milwaukee had lowered its violent crime rate under Barrett’s leadership, well then he must be a real leader. So that’s what the headline said. Only problem was it is a lie. Crime has not gotten better. State and local officials | Read More »

Tom Barrett (D CAND, WI-GOV RECALL) passes on honoring slain cops to… stump-speech the UAW. #recall

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 20th at 10:00 AM  | 

When it came out last week that Milwaukee mayor (and Wisconsin Democratic candidate for governor in the upcoming recall election) Tom Barrett had skipped out on two ceremonies honoring Milwaukee police officers, there was some questions about what Barrett thought could possibly be more important that going to, say, a memorial service for slain Wisconsin policemen.  It probably didn’t help either that Barrett was so | Read More »

“Who was that lady I saw you with last night,” Tom Barrett? #wirecall

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 18th at 02:30 PM  | 

…Oh, relax: it’s an old vaudville/movie routine. You know: “That was no lady: that was my wife.” Yeah, that one’s older than my parents, let alone me. Still: why exactly did Democratic Wisconsin recall gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett shrug off ceremonies honoring Milwaukee policemen this week? Including one on Wednesday that honored Milwaukee cops slain in the line of duty? I ask… well, mostly because | Read More »

Spouse of WI Gubernatorial Recall Candidate Breaks Rules

By: briansikma (Diary)  |  May 14th at 04:09 PM  | 

Promoted from the diaries By: Brian Sikma Kris Barrett, the politically active spouse of Tom Barrett, current mayor of Milwaukee and the Democratic nominee running against Gov. Scott Walker, has been caught using her taxpayer funded e-mail account to lobby and campaign for Democratic candidates and causes. Mrs. Barrett is a public school teacher and last year she was employed by Milwaukee Public Schools, Wisconsin’s | Read More »

Gov. Scott Walker (R, WI) brings in a budget surplus! #wirecall

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 11th at 08:30 PM  | 

Second year running. Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s administration said Thursday that its new revenue projections show the state will finish the 2011-2013 budget years with a surplus rather than the deficit predicted earlier this year. The projections were based on stronger-than-anticipated personal income growth last year, Walker officials said. The numbers could give the governor a boost as he heads into a June 5 recall | Read More »

The DOOM that came to Wisconsin Democrats.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 9th at 09:00 AM  | 

Here are the final results of last night’s primary contest, and presumably a variant of this[***] will end up on Democratic political operatives’ desks across the breadth of Wisconsin: Barrett 390,109 Falk 228,940 Vinehout 26,926 La Follette 19,461 Huber 4,842 Total 670,278 Walker 626,538 Note that that total does not include the almost 20K of ‘Republican’ votes accumulated by ‘Republican’ Arthur Kohl-Riggs, given that the | Read More »

The (Currently) Embarrassing WI-GOV Recall Primary Results Thread.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 8th at 09:48 PM  | 

I’m not really going to stay up and watch this one, but here’s a quick question spawned from the results thus far: With 10% of the vote in, why does the Republican who isn’t actually REALLY in a contested primary have more votes (78,370) than all of the Democrats in the contested primary combined (69,627)? [UPDATE: Well, now it’s 16%, and Walker is continuing to | Read More »

Big Labor Pours $7 Mil. Into Recall, Likely to Exceed 2011 Spending

By: briansikma (Diary)  |  May 2nd at 03:10 PM  | 

Just released campaign finance documents show Big Labor both inside and outside of Wisconsin pouring just over $7 million into the effort to recall Governor Scott Walker and four GOP state senators. In the 2011 recall campaign combined total spending by unions and progressive groups reached $14.7 million, or just over twice what labor unions alone have managed to raise or spend in what is | Read More »