Wisconsin voters express buyer’s remorse over Gov. Scott Walker

[FreakinDJ]

Source: By Rachel Rose Hartman

Wisconsin voters express buyer’s remorse over Gov. Scott Walker

Two months into his first term, a new poll shows Wisconsin voters are unhappy with GOP Gov. Scott Walker--and would send him packing if they were given a do-over of the 2010 election that sent him to the statehouse in Madison.

Amid the firestorm Walker touched off in going after the state's public-sector unions, voters indicated to Public Policy Polling (PDF) that Walker would lose a rematch with his Democratic opponent, Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett, if the election were held today. Fifty-two percent of respondents said that today they would vote for Barrett and 45 percent said they would vote for Walker. Walker's job approval/disapproval was also 46 to 52 percent in the poll. PPP is considered to be a Democratic-allied firm

Those numbers are a complete reversal of November's election. Back then, Walker received 52 percent and Barrett received 46 percent of the vote.

The Wisconsin state capitol has been in disarray since Walker proposed ending collective bargaining for most state workers. Walker's bill has sparked enormous protests and prompted 14 Democratic state senators to flee the capitol to avoid advancing the measure in the state legislature.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20110301/el_yblog_theticket/wisconsin-voters-express-buyers-remorse-over-gov-scott-walker

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Way to Go DipShit

[Kingofalldems]

1. K and R for Wisconsin

Don't let anyone change the subject.

[FreakinDJ]

5. thanks

[aquart]

2. Way too many people still ain't awake.

[Atman]

3. Elections have consequences.

Even if the people change their minds, fuck 'em. We don't care the people want, we're in office to do what WE want! Fuck you, people...electing crooks has consequences.

[HEyHEY]

4. My buddy and I were saying that Walker is a good thing

He really shows Americans just what people are getting themselves into if they vote for tea party guys.

[Drale]

6. Hopefully this hardship will have a positive ending

in that people will think before they vote, but I doubt it. :argh:

[DirkGently]

7. Florida knows the feeling. Too late for both.

[DFW]

8. At least THIS article got the word exactly right: "buyer's" remorse

That is because with all the paid-for carpet-bombing advertising from the Kochs and Rove,
as well as Feingold's opponent, the voters of Wisconsin were indeed SOLD a package of very
damaged goods.

These damaged goods will indeed attampt to wreak a maximulm of damage on Wisconsin before
a legal recall can be instigated. Let's hope people's memories are long enough to follow
through. California's recall of Gray Davis was another bought and paid for campaign. The
same people that paid for the advertising that recalled Davis will spend ten times that much
to convince the voters of Wisconsin NOT to recall their defective Republicans come next
January. If the recall fails, it will not be because ther Republicans in question improved.
It will be because the same advertising budget that sold them these damaged politicians
in the first place will gear up once again to sell them the same poison.

[CTyankee]

9. Did Walker run on the idea of punishing public union workers?

What was his "winning" campaign theme?

[DFW]

13. I wasn't there

Maybe it was nothing more than "I'm a Republican, and we're back."

At least he has reminded people in no uncertain terms why they were out in the first place.

But it's sad. I have seen sieves with more memory retention.

[FreakinDJ]

15. No - dropped "The Bomb" on Jan 7th 2011

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

10. Where are the smug "i'm sitting this one out" assholes now?

The chickens came home to roost sooner than they might have imagined,

I think the label around here was "poutrage"?

[FreakinDJ]

11. Well no doubt Walker has invigerated and expanded the Dem Base now

perhaps this is a lesson

[elocs]

12. Is there remorse from the hundreds of thousands who didn't vote last November?

Particularly Democrats?

Governments are formed as well are laws and policies as a result of those who choose to participate in the process, and hopefully they are well informed as well.

[jimlup]

14. I'm sorry but we knew all about this back in November

At least those of us here get this stuff. Why are the voters willfully so damn ignorant?

[CTyankee]

16. That is interesting. Where can I find out more. If this guy was lying to the people during the

campaign about his true motives, that has to be exposed.

But what DID he campaign on? I'm really interested in knowing this...

[FreakinDJ]

17. Not True

In his own words "I dropped the Bomb on Jan 7th"

[jimlup]

18. Didn't mean in the specific sense

The voters need to grow up and realize what a con the republicons are. That is all that I meant.

[FreakinDJ]

19. Sorry

but I do like the facts of this argument because the TeaFarty is having so much trouble with Facts these days

[JeffersonChick]

20. Seriously? 45% would still vote for f***ing Walker?

:banghead:

[Flannelman]

21. 46 percent

Just wait ... It will go lower then that . 
But thing need to get fixed and he is going to tick off alot
more people before it all said and done. 

[KillCapitalism]

22. Wisconsin is a consevative hellhole, so they are getting what they deserve.

That state is reddder than Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, and Oklahoma put together. Why are they bitching? They got what they wanted.