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  [WI]What It All Means, Initial Thoughts
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Last EditedPenguin  Jun 05, 2012 11:40pm
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News DateWednesday, June 6, 2012 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionComing out of Wisconsin tonight, what do the results mean and what don’t they mean?

These are bad times for incumbents across the country and, frankly, around the world. A governor convincingly (we still don’t know the exact margin) winning a recall election is a big deal. Victory counts. There’s no getting around that.

This is also a big loss for public employees unions. There’s no getting around that fact. Just why that happened is another matter. But at the end of the day, victory is all that matters. Walker went big to destroy the public sector unions in his state. And the labor movement went all out to take him down and lost. Wisconsin’s a pretty progressive, fairly blue-ish state. This result in this state has to embolden Republican governors across the country to think you can go for game-changing attacks on key Democratic constituencies like labor and not pay a price at the polls. Public employees unions across the country have feel like they have crosshairs on their backs. And they do.

I don’t think you can spin this any other way.

Here’s piece of data to figure into this. A year ago plus, Gov. Walker made a hard push against public opinion. And he seemed like a dead man walking politically. He got really unpopular and stayed unpopular until late last year, as you can see in this chart.
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