He lost last time against Walker.
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He lost last time against Walker.
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According to Wikipedia Barrett lost by ~6% in 2010. The real question is going be whether Walkers’ actions have pissed off 4% more people than he has encouraged.
The latest story doesn’t really surprise me but I hope it gets some people on the Walker side a better idea of just how far in the pocket of big business he is.
Remember also that 2010 was the Republican wave. They were motivated to vote in huge numbers because of the Tea Party mania and a certain, sunlight-resistant member of government, who shall remain nameless…
Hussein!
Whoop-de-shit!
When have I EVER touted Lincoln as someone to be emulated? Or are you trying to bait me into listing who I think should be shot in the head?
He’s popular in a small, condensed area. Otherwise he’s toast.
Barrett was a Representative to Congress, but when district lines were redrawn in 2000 he was afraid of running against an even more liberal drunk in a primary so he decided to instead run for Governor in 2002. A congressional district might elect the guy, but the state as a whole rejected him. Barrett then ran for and got elected Mayor of Milwaukee. Not a hard thing to do since most of us in brew town are bleary eyed drunks and even Barrett is an improvement over the pervert who was previously Mayor. In 2010 Barrett once again ran for Guv, and once again lost. In a few weeks I will re-post this substituting 2012 for 2010.
Well, I daresay one could win the governorship of Illinois on the Chicago vote alone. How populous/important is Milwaukee in Wisconsin?
Oh, so Barret got really creamed in that last election, huh? And Walker has gotten soooo much more popular since then. All those “Boy, Do We Ever Fucking LOVE Governor Walker” rallies. Add that up and this Barret guy is toast. OK. Got it.
Milwaukee is about 10% of the state, so not enough to carry an election by itself.
Actually, he’s really neither, he hasn’t done much of anything to make people love or hate him. He’s just been keeping a chair warm in City Hall for 8 years. The city has had a Democrat mayor for over 50 years, and they are rarely challenged, so the job will be his as long as he wants it (assuming no affairs with staffers).
I don’t believe Barrett is toast, but he is the underdog. He is 0-2 in state wide elections, outstate voters have never been fond of Milwaukee politicians. My gut feeling is that Walker survives, with 51-52% of the vote. And I really, really hope it’s not close enough to trigger a recount.
As I tried ponting out in the Wiki Link of my previous post, he didn’t get creamed in the 2010 election. He lost by 6% or about 125,000 votes out of 2.1 Million votes for Governor.
The first poll I found with a google search shows the Walker ahead at 50% to Barretts 45%, of course the margin of error on the poll is 4.5%. Considering the last polls in 2010 showed Walker ahead 52% to 40% and he won by only 6% so could still be close regardless of pkbites total optimism.
Heh, Democratic mayor for the last 62 years with a Socialist mayor for the 24 years before that.
The Tea Party would call that a winning trend!
That poll was probably taken before the recent video that showed Walker’s true intent w.r.t. unions. Also, let’s not forget the John Doe investigation.
In a normal election with a 5 or 10 to 1 spending advantage there would be no question of the outcome. But even with the huge money advantage, Walker is in a dogfight this time.
The meme that “national unions” will fund Barrett to equal Walker’s $25 million is hilarious. Unions don’t have that kind of money laying around. I predict that when the final reports are in (sometime in 2013??) that the unions will have kicked in under $1 million for Barrett’s campaign. Meanwhile, we know Walker will have had more than that $25 million. Ironically, he might not even be able to spend his entire cache of cash in the short window before the June recall election. Maybe he’ll save it for his legal defense.
“These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland. The values that have inspired other dissidents under Communist domination. They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost. They remind us that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. You and I must protect and preserve freedom here or it will not be passed on to our children. Today the workers in Poland are showing a new generation not how high is the price of freedom but how much it is worth that price.”
–Ronald Reagan, September 1st, 1980.
And, of course, Reagan’s first “political” positions were as a director, then president, of a union (the Screen Actors Guild).
From The Nation:
No chance of indictment, I suppose?
Oh, you’re no fun! 
Yeah it’s bullshit if we get Gored.
Tap, tap, tap, is this thing on?
Should I have spelled it Gore’d?
Who doesn’t have a “Give it up Gore” Tee shirt in the closet?
Latest poll of probable voters gives Walker a 5% lead.
Link?
Americans.
Sorry, this one says six percent.