Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Now that the recall primary is behind us and messages from both sides are more targeted, Wisconsin voters are starting to get more decisive.
Gov. Scott Walker is up by six points against Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, according to a new Marquette University Law School poll of likely voters. The results of the poll were released Wednesday during a segment of the on-going "On the Issues" series with Mike Gousha and Professor Charles Franklin. Polling of 704 registered voters took place between May 9-12, and the poll results include responses from 600 likely voters in the pool with a 3.8 percent margin of error. Only 3 percent of those surveyed said they are undecided. The voting sample was split at about 52 percent women, 48 percent men and 89 percent white and about five percent each for African Americans and Hispanics. Before the primary, registered voters had Barrett leading by…
Monday, May 14, 2012
Local Republican officials Duffy, Harsdorf and Knudson are scheduled to speak at the Republican rally a week before the recall election.
The Republican Party of St. Croix County has announced plans for a rally at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May 29 at Lakefront Park, according to a press release issued Monday morning. U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy will be the featured speaker. State Sen. Sheila Harsdorf and State Rep. Dean Knudson also will speak at the event. The event will serve as a kickoff point for the party's get-out-the-vote effort for the June 5 gubernatorial recall election between Gov. Scott Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. Both Duffy and Knudson are up for re-election in November. Duffy is facing Democratic challenger Pat Kreitlow and Knudson is facing Democratic challenger Diane Odeen.
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Sunday, May 13, 2012
President's campaign sends e-mail to Obama supporters urging them to vote for Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in June 5 recall election of Gov. Scott Walker.
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is actively getting behind the effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker from office, The Huffington Post reports. The campaign is focusing its efforts on educating and registering voters in advance of the historic June 5 gubernatorial recall election. Tripp Wellde, the Wisconsin state director for the Obama campaign, sent an email to supporters Thursday night, urging them to support Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, Walker's Democratic opponent. The Obama campaign also hosted "Own Your Vote" events around the state this weekend, described as "organizing phone banks and knocking on doors to make sure Wisconsinites are registered and ready to own their vote on Election Day," according to The Huffington Post…
Thursday, May 10, 2012
A new Rasmussen Reports poll indicates Gov. Scott Walker has 50 percent of the vote while Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett comes in at 45 percent.
If the recall election were held today, a new poll indicates Gov. Scott Walker could come out the winner. According to Rasmussen Reports, Walker would pull in 50 percent of the vote while Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett would garner 45 percent of the vote. Two percent would choose someone else and two percent are still undecided. Rasmussen surveyed 500 likely voters by telephone on May 9, the day after the historic recall primary election, when both Walker and Barrett beat out real and "protest" challengers. With a margin of error of +/- 4.5 percent, though, perhaps the points between the candidates more closely mirrors the results of a recent Marquette University Law School poll that shows Walker and Barrett in a dead heat. Survey results for…
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
State voters delivered a June 5 rematch of the 2010 gubernatorial race and a Mahlon Mitchell-Rebecca Kleefisch matchup in the lieutenant governor's race. But protest candidate Isaac Weix carried St. Croix County.
Protest candidate Isaac Weix, an Elmwood resident, carried St. Croix County in Tuesday's Democratic recall primary election. Weix (41.9 percent) defeated Mahlon Mitchell (39.4 percent) and Ira Robins (15.3 percent) in St. Croix County. Mitchell won statewide with more than half the vote. --- Gov. Scott Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett emerged from their primaries on Tuesday and will face off against each other on June 5, in a rematch of the 2010 gubernatorial election. In November 2010, after incumbent Jim Doyle chose not to run for re-election, Walker defeated Barrett with 52 percent of the vote to become the state’s 45th governor. Walker (97 percent) easily beat protester Arthur Kohl-Riggs (3 percent) in the statewide totals. …
Gov. Scott Walker accepted invitations to participate in two debates, while Mayor Tom Barrett accepted four invitations. All would take place before the June 5 general recall election.
The day after the historic recall primary election in which both Gov. Scott Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett got the decisive nod from their supporters, just how many debates the two will participate in seems to be, well, up for debate. After the Walker campaign announced Wednesday that he would participate in two debates with his opponent, Barrett's campaign issued a press release saying the mayor had accepted invitations to four debates. Barrett called Walker out, challenging him to accept the same invitations. "Scott Walker loves to launch misleading attacks on jobs in news conferences and press releases, so let's meet face to face and compare our records and our visions on jobs before the people of Wisconsin," said Barrett in a …
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett will meet Gov. Scott Walker in a June 5 recall election after winning Tuesday's primary over former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk and three other candidates.
Like it or not, Wisconsin, we’re getting a recall rematch. Voters hoping to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker have put their faith in Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, who handily won Tuesday’s Democratic primary election. Barrett will square off against Walker one month from now in the June 5 recall, a rematch of the November 2010 showdown. Over the next month, Barrett undoubtedly hopes to ride the momentum of Tuesday’s convincing victory over former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk. Barrett garnered 55 percent of the statewide vote to Falk’s 37 percent, as of 10 p.m. Tuesday. "I will end Scott Walker's ideological civil war," Barrett told supporters at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee after his victory. In November 2010, after incumbent Jim …
Check out the replay of Patch's live recall primary blog from Tuesday night.
Voters headed to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots in the special primary election for governor and four state Senate seats. Patch blogged live from the election and you can revisit our real-time coverage in this blog replay. And remember to stay with Patch over the next month as we continue to provide coverage of the historic recall election.
Forget Voter ID. Today, during the state's first recall primary election, poll workers from communities in southeastern Wisconsin reported overvoting as the most common "problem" they've faced.
The unusual rules of Tuesday's historic recall primary election are creating some confusion among voters throughout southeastern Wisconsin, according to local election officials. In most primary elections, voters have to decide whether they're going to vote for all Republican or all Democratic candidates. But in Tuesday's recall race, voters can cast a ballot for a Republican in one race and a Democrat in another. And that is leading to some problems with overvoting — where voters wind up voting for more than one candidate in a race. Problems have been reported in Wauwatosa, Shorewood, Brookfield, Mount Pleasant, Caledonia, Greendale and elsewhere. Sharon Ingles, chief elections inspector at Concordia Lutheran in Mount Pleasant, said …
Here are the latest updates from the campaign trail in the upcoming recall elections.
Tuesday is primary election day in Wisconsin's recall races and Patch will provide regular updates here throughout the day. Starting at about 6 p.m., Patch will provide live, continuous coverge on the primary until the race is called. 10:35 a.m.: Walker blasts Barrett on talk show The votes haven't been counted yet in the gubernatorial primary election, but that didn't stop Gov. Scott Walker from going on the offensive against Democrat Tom Barrett Tuesday morning. Speaking on the Charlie Sykes show on Newsradio 620 TMJ, Walker made a direct push against the candidate he expects to face in the general election on June 5. "Simply look at the difference between the City of Milwaukee and the State of Wisconsin," Walker told Sykes. "We're …
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