[gusopol3]

here are the numbers I’m puzzled by: 1 million supposedly signed the recall petition, but only 1.1 million voted for Barrett? So, the recall petitioning effort was so efficient it identified virtually everybody that would vote against Walker? That is absolutely stunning competence or a nasty manufactured deception.

[Starstruck]

A couple of Union goons can shove a petition in many people's faces and intimidate them into signing, but they can't follow the same people into the booth.

In my day the teacher would have you write 100 times "I will not talk in class". In Wisconsin they probably make them write a hundred names on a petition.

[bcsco]

The figures I saw were, they needed 1 mil signatures on the petition; got 1.1 mil. The vote count for Barrett was 1,158,377. That means they only added 58,377 voters to their camp beyond the number of petition signers.

[Mygirlsmom]

Manufactured all the way, baby. First, it's an oft-repeated myth that they got a million signatures. Total was more like 800,000 and there were many duplicates, suspect and incomplete signatures.

Remember too, that the recall signature effort was during the winter. It's summer now, and all the little darlings at UW Madison and Milwaukee have dispersed. Signing the petition was easy - it came right to them, but I suspect voting was more effort than many cared to make.