Tag: Scott Walker

This race was always going to tighten, and it looks as though it finally has: it is well within the poll’s 2.8% margin of error: PPP’s final poll on the Wisconsin recall finds Scott Walker ahead, but also a race

Tom Barrett, Scott Walker’s challenger in the Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election, told CNN this morning that he didn’t ask President Obama to stop by the state to rally Democrats in his support. “We understand he’s got a lot going on,”

MADISON, Wis., June 2 (UPI) —A local official says thousands of requests for absentee ballots suggest the turnout will be high in Tuesday’s recall election for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Appleton City Clerk Charlene Petersen told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The Greater Wisconsin Political Fund is a 527 political organization, but it is stridently anti-Scott Walker and over the past couple of days Wisconsin residents have been receiving very disturbing mailings that not only attempt to shame you and your neighbors

Question: when did you stop believing in Santa Claus? If you’re like most people you probably stopped believing in Santa Claus when you grew up.   But some people never grow up. They go through life putting their hopes and

I’ve said it before: the recall election June 5th in Wisconsin is the most important state election this year, second only to the presidential election. Why? Because Governor Scott Walker leads the first generation of reform governors. Together with his

The news just keeps getting worse for Elizabeth Warren. The Washington Examiner reports today that even the left wing group Moveon.org is admitting they may have to pull the plug on the Elizabeth Warren campaign. Though the article quotes Moveon.org

(AP) Wisconsin’s Walker raises $31M in face of recallBy SCOTT BAUERAssociated PressMADISON, Wis.Republican Gov. Scott Walker has raised about $31 million since he took office 17 months ago, including a remarkable $5.9 million in the last five weeks reported to

MILWAUKEE – A paper trail running through state and federal agencies now shows that a self-described “non-partisan organization” may in fact be connected to partisan campaign activity here in Wisconsin. Wisconsin Jobs Now!, according to U.S. Department of Labor records, has

With all eyes on the Wisconsin recall election, most of the attention and resources have gone towards the main event: Republican Governor Scott Walker’s bid to fight off challenger Tom Barrett. Between the polls and the pulling back of last

Wisconsin’s recall elections are but days away, and most of the coverage has surrounded Scott Walker’s gubernatorial battle. It’s an important battle, one of the most important elections of 2012. There’s another battle raging, however–that of his second-in-command, his Lieutenant

Labor’s gubernatorial challenger to Scott Walker, Tom Barrett, has resorted to campaigning with notorious anti-speech Democrat Russ Feingold. It was former senator Feingold who, along with John McCain, criminalized speech for a class of Americans in their campaign finance witch

(AP) Warning signs for Obama on path to electoral votesBy THOMAS BEAUMONTAssociated PressPresident Barack Obama faces new warning signs in a once-promising Southern state and typically Democratic-voting Midwestern states roughly five months before the election even as he benefits nationally

Supporters of government reform have been buoyed recently by a slew of polls showing Gov. Scott Walker with a solid, growing lead in June’s recall election. His blowout performance in the GOP primary showed that GOP voters were more energized