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 »

Beyond Last Night

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  June 6th at 12:00 PM  | 

I make few denials about being partisan. I enjoy it at times like last night. In fact, I haven’t enjoyed watching a bunch of people from Wisconsin administer a condign beatdown on a deserving opponent this much since Brett Favre was playing in The Super Bowl. All gloating aside, a lot went into last night that goes far beyond just Wisconsin State-Level politics and provides | Read More »

#wirecall results: …DOOM.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 5th at 10:10 PM  | 

The networks are calling it for Scott Walker right now – they’ll also be calling it for Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch any moment now, and at least three of the four state Senate elections.  I would like to note for the record that I Told You So; and I would like to repeat something that I once wrote in regard to the folks who opposed | Read More »

54% of WI AFSCME employees voted with their feet in 2011. #wirecall

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 31st at 09:30 AM  | 

I am going to try to avoid too much hyperbole and sarcasm for this one; this is one time where the situation requires neither. When Scott Walker and other Republicans instituted labor union reforms in 2009, one of the basic planks of such reforms – the one that was quietly and viciously fought, tooth and nail, by the unions – was removal of mandatory dues | Read More »

Latest Scott Walker ad: “Crime.” #wirecall

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 29th at 11:30 AM  | 

Let me spell this out for the Democrats: this ad would probably doom Tom Barrett if he was ahead in the polls right now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=icGujXPWhDo

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 »