Wi. starts burning ballots July 23rd

[chknltl]

10. and here too:

http://wisconsinwave.org/handcount

(from Wisconsin Wave)

"Exit polls reported by major news outlets at 8pm put the race at a 50-50 dead heat. However less than an hour later, with only 25% of precincts reporting, those same outlets called the race for Walker. This early prediction was later matched by the official count which settled at 53% for Walker and 46% for Barrett"

As I said Upthread, the pre election polls and the exit polls suggested a 50/50 split that is where we got our cautious optimism from. Then things went south, fast! It never got discussed much here but you could tell we were pretty much in a funk over the results of that election. We took what little cheer we could out of the state senate flipping because one Seat went toa Dem. Don't get me wrong, that victory was huge, but it sorta got swallowed up in other stuff- stuff like an examination of the financial inequality that went on in that race due to citizens united. (Conservative estimates were that the Democratic challengers got outspent 8 to 1). Basically within a week of that election, we here at the DU had moved on.