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These Election Results Are Just The Beginning
by Amal | on June 6, 2012
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These Election Results Are Just The
Beginning Of Madness
For those that don’t remember or didn’t read my blog back on April 26th entitled “Billionaires
buy our politicians,” which discussed the very outcome expected when politicians receive the
backing of high fa looting men & women who are bank rolling so much that they thumb their
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nose up to those highlighted on the show “The Rich and Famous.”
This is not a game this means war and those that believe President Obama is going to just stroll
into office for another term, they have just been put on notice.
Walker wins one for the plutocrats
Outspent 7-1, Democrats couldn’t beat Scott Walker with
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2. a strong ground game. What does that say about
November?
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Scott Walker(Credit: AP) Get Started Now!
At about 3 pm Wisconsin time Scott Walker Tweeted: “President Reagan died on June 5, 2004. *Email
Let’s win one for the Gipper!” It was moment of grandiosity for a man who endured the shame
of a recall election, then ultimately spent enough to survive it, but it wasn’t the first time Walker start now
invoked Reagan on one of his big days.
While talking to a prankster who pretended he was billionaire GOP funder David Koch more than
a year ago, Walker confided what he did at a dinner for his staff the night before he unveiled his
union-busting agenda. “I pulled out a picture of Ronald Reagan and I said ‘You know, this may
seem a little melodramatic, but 30 years ago Ronald Reagan, whose 100th birthday we just
celebrated the day before, had one of the most defining moments of his political career, not just
his presidency, when he fired the air traffic controllers,’” Walker told the faux-Koch.
It turns out Walker’s anti-union gambit was a defining moment for the modern Republican Party.
When Reagan busted PATCO, the air traffic controllers’ union, he accelerated the decline of the
American labor movement, and American workers’ wages have declined along with it ever since.
When Walker moved against public employee unions, it was an effort to drive the final nail in
labor’s coffin, while defunding a crucial resource base for the Democratic Party. Plutocrats
rewarded him handsomely for his work, shoveling money into Wisconsin and burying Democrat
Tom Barrett with a 7-1 cash disadvantage.
Could it have been otherwise? Progressives got their hopes up in the last 24 hours, as polls
tightened and reports of record turnout in Milwaukee and Madison let people believe an upset
might be afoot. But the results were much what polls had predicted all along. With hindsight, it
was hard for it to turn out any other way. Wisconsin’s was only the third gubernatorial recall
election in history. I’m reluctant to cite exit polls that showed a much tighter race than the actual
election, but 60 percent of voters polled said they didn’t believe in recalls for anything other than
“official misconduct.” That was a tough hole for Barrett to climb out of.
He was also climbing out of a primary battle with labor favorite Kathleen Falk. Polls showed that
people who made up their minds in the last month overwhelmingly chose Barrett, but that most
people decided on the recall before May – when Democrats were fighting with one
another and Walker was blanketing the airwaves with advertising. Most important,
Barrett drowned in outside money, with two thirds of Walker’s cash coming from out
of state, floods of it from the usual suspects like the Kochs, Sheldon Adelson, Foster
Freiss and Bob Perry. So some very local factors went into Walker’s win, but
Democrats nationally are likely to face a big fundraising disadvantage in this post-
Citizens United world.
There were a few other interesting tidbits in those not entirely reliable exit polls. Walker won big
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3. with folks making more than $75,000, but essentially split the votes of those making between
$35,000 and $75,000, a group that Barrett should have captured had his message gotten
through. Better news for Democrats: Walker won men 58-41, but Barrett won women 53-46.
And President Obama led Mitt Romney among voters polled 52 to 43 percent; in fact, 17
percent of voters who said they back Obama went for Walker.
Should Democrats take comfort in Obama’s Wisconsin numbers? David Axelrod did, Tweeting it
out as the polls closed. But in the end, the recall results probably tell us little about what will
happen in November. I think the election could leave Obama stronger in the state, because the
Democrats improved their ground game, even if it didn’t turn out to be enough to unseat
Walker. Yet there are reasons to look at Wisconsin and be worried about the national
picture in November, chief among them the bottomless pockets of the GOP’s
plutocrat donor base. The Democrats’ stumble will also embolden those on the
Occupy-left who want labor and progressives to abandon the party, while bolstering
the case of centrist and Wall Street Dems that the party can’t afford to alienate the
wealthy lest it suffer a 7-1 funding disadvantage nationwide. As to whether Obama
should have visited Wisconsin to bolster Barrett, I still think what I thought Tuesday morning: It’s
complicated.
When Reagan busted PATCO, he not only weakened an institution that protects workers, but
one that had become a foundation of the Democratic Party. Both results helped give the
wealthy much greater political power. With Citizens United, the John Roberts Supreme Court
sent us back to the Gilded Age, undoing a cornerstone of Progressive era reform, campaign
finance. Walker’s victory is just one more example of the way the modern right has turned back
the clock. When Tuesday’s results were in, Mitt Romney crowed that they “will echo beyond the
borders of Wisconsin. Governor Walker has shown that citizens and taxpayers can fight back –
and prevail – against the runaway government costs imposed by labor bosses.”
Reagan also took the first step in transforming “labor bosses,” and particularly public sector
unions, into the new “welfare queens” he loved to rail against. I had hoped (as I’ve written many
times) that the anti-Walker uprisings in Wisconsin, and against Measure 5 in Ohio last November,
signaled a recognition by the white working and middle classes that some of them – cops and
nurses and firefighters and teachers – have become welfare queens to the modern GOP. But
that hasn’t sufficiently happened yet, though it must be said that plenty of white working and
middle class folks put their heart and soul into the recall. Walker’s victory is a reminder of what
Democrats face in November. Maybe that’s a good thing.
No Longer A Election Results Standstill
People must come in mass to defeat the massive amounts of money that’ll be pumped into the
candidates they want to win. The powers that be have shown that they are willing to go all out,
7-1 was spent for a governors recall. What do you think their willing to spend for a Presidential
post? What are you going to do?
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