Posted on 05/31/2012 4:12:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
On the one hand, is there a single vote left across the entire state that's still in play here? Wisconsinites have been gorging on recall politicking for literally years now. Barring a catastrophic gaffe by Walker or Barrett in the last few days before the vote, who's still making up his/her mind on this election?
On the other hand, dude, I'm nervous:
Former President Bill Clinton has decided to go to Wisconsin to campaign against Scott Walker in the final days of the battle over whether to recall the Wisconsin Governor, a move that could give a boost to the anti-Walker forces in a campaign that will depend heavily on who turns out to vote, a source familiar with Clinton’s plans confirms to me...
Democrats badly want Clinton to campaign in Wisconsin for Tom Barrett, and had lobbied him heavily for weeks. But Clinton remaind undecided until today...
Labor and Dems are widely believed to have a superior ground game to that of Walker, though it’s still unclear whether it will be enough to compensate for Walker’s seeming lead in the polls. A Clinton visit, Dems hope, will galvanize base turnout (the black vote in Milwaukee, for example) just enough to put Barrett over the top.
Clinton’s a famously good campaigner and he and Hillary have always appealed to blue-collar Dems, so if there’s anyone out there who can squeeze a little extra turnout out of Barrett’s base, it’s him. That’s not really the part that worries me, though. What worries me is that he must be sufficiently convinced by Barrett’s internal polls showing that this is a winnable race that he’s willing to stake a little of his own political capital on it. In fact, maybe that’s part of the logic of this — if Clinton shows up with Barrett, it’s a strong signal to depressed Wisconsin Dems that this thing might still be winnable after all. Doesn’t even matter what he says. Just the fact that he’s there is the message.
Then again, if Barrett’s internal polls are so compelling, why are other top Democrats running away from Wisconsin?
President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Minneapolis, which sits along the border of Wisconsin, on Friday, but has no plans to visit the Badger State.
White House press secretary Jay Carney distanced the administration from Barrett’s campaign at Wednesday’s briefing…
During an MSNBC interview Wednesday morning, Obama spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter tried to downplay the significance of the recall effort, saying it had “nothing to do” with the presidential election.
“This is a gubernatorial race with a guy who was recalled, and a, you know, a challenger trying to get him out of office,” Cutter said. “It has nothing to do with President Obama at the top of the ticket. And it certainly doesn’t have anything to do with Mitt Romney at the top of the Republican ticket. So, no, I don’t think, you know, there may be some that will, you know, predict that it means doom for us in Wisconsin in the fall elections, but I think they’ll be proven wrong.”
Actually, there’s good reason to think that the recall effort will help Republicans contend in Wisconsin in the fall. The RNC claims it’s made more than two million voter contacts in the state and has opened 20 field offices that will segue to organizing for Romney once they’re done organizing for Walker. Worst-case scenario: Obama holds on to win the state in November but ends up having to spend money there that he had earmarked for a swing state. Best-case scenario: Romney pulls the upset and the Walker recall effort ends up exploding like a 20-megaton bomb in the Dems’ faces. That might also be part of the logic in sending Clinton out there: Even if Walker ends up winning, the closer the Dems can make it on Tuesday, the more Romney will think twice about gambling on the state by spending his own money there. He’s got a heavy lift to start with — Obama beat McCain in the state by 14 points — so absent a very solid Walker victory, Mitt might conclude that it’s a lost cause even if he’ll probably significantly improve on Maverick’s results. Clinton’s task is to make sure the victory isn’t so solid, even if it happens.
Fools rush in where the DNC fears to tread.
President Obie doesn’t want to be associated with the coming Barrett defeat...
Yeah, dose Svedish Socialist-babes are hot, yeah.
When did Clinton get a girlfriend in Wisconsin?
1: Monica Lewinsky
2: I did not inhale
3: Traitorous authorization of technology to China
4: (Feel free to add to this list)
.....Or it pisses off the Repubs & independents even more, to have adulterer Bubba Clinton, with loads of personal baggage himself, coming as an outsider to the state trying to sway this to the thug unions & dimTurds. I think this will backfire even more on the demTurds.
ps. Just contributed another $80 today to www.ScottWalker.com
Did all I could to talk Hillary from shooting Vince how did i end up in the par k with out my car keys Foster
The blue dress express, what a jerk who thinks people give a sh** what he thinkz or says.
Wisconsin: BJ Clinton coming to Milwaukee tomorrow ping!
Time for Billy to leave the stage.
Rubbish. The only person(s) he's interested in promoting are named Clinton. He, his family and the DC press don't seem to understand that 'Bill Clinton' is and will forever be a worldwide punchline.
PS - Chelsea is quoted in 'The Amateur': 'Mom you deserve the presidency! Yep, she's a Clinton all right.
The Dems will attempt to run on that if they can't run on Obama's record. Indeed, this shows they already are running on the memory of "Clinton's economy". We need to have answers ready.
#2, the transfers of technology to China, is a good start. His failure to get Bin Laden when he may have had the opportunity to do so bloodlessly is another. The advent of ecommerce and Y2K, and the jobs they created, would have happened regardless of who was in the White House. And his "balanced" budget was largelt due to not having to budget for the Cold War and the tax revenue generated by the tech boom. We can start there, IMHO.
I think the lines have already been drawn. Outside of rallying the faithful, he won’t do much. He might bring people to the polls who have decided to sit this one out, but I doubt it will be a large enough amount.
The people in WI are sick of this. They see success in what Walker has accomplished, and the Walker side is far more energized. I could be wrong, but I still think Walker will win, and win well.
The definition of the word “is.”
I still wish some Republican with a backbone (I know that is mutually exclusive) had walked out in the gallery and found a 10 year old school girl on a tour and had her come in and explain to the POTUS what the word meant.
And we remember how well that worked ! LOL !!!!
Schadenfreude moment coming ! LOL !!!
Either that or he is going their to troll for buxom blondes....
(Rest of headline) Hide your women and children
Klintoon came here to El Paso, to stump for Reyes who lost!!
Hide the women folk cheeseheads.
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