Beaten-Down Wisconsin Liberals Suddenly See Hope Of Defeating Scott Walker
I do at times feel beaten down but am ambivalent about the title appearing in Huff post story.
Yet, given the last poll, I DO FEEL A RAY of hope--that Mary Burke can oust Scooter!
Beaten-Down Wisconsin Liberals Suddenly See Hope Of Defeating Scott Walker
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/08/scott-walker-mary-burke_n_5660429.html?1407470611&utm_content=buffereb35b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
....It’s a gloomy time for Wisconsin Democrats. And Walker, one would think, would be poised for a convincing win this fall that would launch him with a head of steam into the 2016 presidential election process next year.
In fact, last fall, the talk here in the capital city among Walker supporters and supposedly some aides was about whether they could bury his rival in the gubernatorial race by a percentage in the high-single digits. As recently as late winter and early spring, the Democratic Governors Association was muted in its assessment of the race. One Wisconsin Democrat at a gathering of big-money progressive donors couldn’t get anyone to pay attention to him.
Walker’s Democratic challenger, Mary Burke, had been down by several points in most of the Marquette University polls -- the one Wisconsin politicos pay the most attention to. But in May, she drew even. The July survey validated that she was indeed neck and neck with Walker. That was despite $1 million the Republican Governors Association spent on TV ads attacking Burke in the spring.
Suddenly, Burke, the daughter of Trek Bicycle Corp. founder Richard Burke and a former executive at the company, is “the belle of the ball” for the liberal money crowd, one Democrat said. If that’s true, it would help. Burke has raised $6 million since entering the race last fall, but Walker has had more time to raise funds for his re-election, and has hauled in $18.7 million since winning the recall in June 2012. .....
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