Typical Politico Spin: 'Money Shouts' Is Lesson of Wisconsin Recall
Politico's Glenn Thrush insists that there's "Only one takeaway from Wisconsin: Money shouts." "Cash doesn't talk in 2012, it shouts, and Wisconsin was a sonic boom that's breaking glass in Chicago," Thrush groused, adding that "Conservative groups outspent unions and progs in Wisconsin by an estimated SEVEN-TO-ONE."
Although it's a predictable left-leaning take on yesterday's results, it's incredibly insulting to Badger State voters, not to mention completely illogical in light of exit polling data.
Scott Walker yesterday garnered some 53.2 percent of vote yesterday to his Democratic opponent's 46.3 percent, a difference of 6.9 percentage points. Walker's 53.2 percent share of the votes is 0.9 percentage points better than his 52.3 percent showing in 2010. In other words, Walker did marginally better in the recall than he did in the regular election.
Money may shout, but shouting doesn't move people to polls and certainly didn't produce a dramatically different result for Walker than his initial victory two years prior. To see that, Thrush needs only look at exit polling data about union voters and their choices for governor.
The 2012 recall electorate was actually slightly more disposed to be favorable to Barrett, the Democratic challenger, because 33 percent of the voters were union members, compared to only 26 percent of voters in the 2010 gubernatorial race. In both elections, however Walker garnered 37 percent of those union voters.
So after more than a year of Big Union propaganda being "shouted" at union members in the Badger State, union voters failed to decisively move into the Barrett column. Big Union money and union boss peer pressure failed to make that voting bloc a powerhouse for Barrett.
By contrast, non-union voters voted for Walker by 60 percent to Barrett's 40, up from the 56-43 split in 2010. It's a healthy bump in non-union voter support, but hardly what you'd expect from all the "shouting" of Super PAC cash that liberal journalists see as the bogeyman.
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So they're trying say Governor Walker won
Submitted by dzejk113 on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 12:59pm.
because he outspent the unions and democrats? Yet when Obama defeated McCain in 2008, it had nothing to do with the democrats outspending the republicans? I hope that some day very soon reality will kick these people in the face.
Well reality could do that
Submitted by Mark81150 on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 1:45am.
But it wouldn't matter. Progressives may be the only living things which do not respond to pain stimuli like any other would. They simply double down on the actions which caused reality to sink in her teeth to begin with.. just certain that there will be a unicorn if they just mutter OH-BOMB-AH with enough blind faith.
a few more conservative sacrifices on the media altar...
and maybe this time.. the unicorn god OH-BOMB-AH will come through like he promised.
a kind of mental illness or just chronically stupid.. you tell me.
Money is evil.. unless it is their money..
faith in God is a sign of a sloped forehead .. unless it's blind faith in the liberal god of big gubmint.. then it's a sign of a higher IQ.
Hypocrisy is the only standard liberals follow faithfully.
Obama's campaign
Submitted by b-dob on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 1:03pm.
We'll see what the left whines about after Barry spends $1B campaigning and loses in November. Racism is my guess...
What's his point....?
Submitted by NeoKong on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 1:08pm.
They were crying about this all night on MSNBC about how big money is buying theses elections.
They didn't mind it when Obama outspent McCain more than 2-1.
It's as if they are saying nobody has the right to raise more money than they do.
For years and years they have had the enormous advantage of being the recipients of the tens of millions of dollars from big labor that went exclusively to Democrats.
Not only did they have that they also always had the all the network news and almost all of cable media giving them millions of dollars of in kind contributions by pushing their message for free every night all the while when it was illegal for Republicans to raise the money to counter it.
Now the Republican have their own source of big political cash and all of a sudden big money is bad.
But only for one side.
But I guess all those Soros bucks that help put the Dear Ruler..
Submitted by Dave. on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 2:21pm.
...into the White House were just peachy.
Funny, I didn't hear the SRM whining about that.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Hmmm
Submitted by HelenS on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 2:56pm.
Didn't BO win with 51%? And there was rejoicing in the streets?
But when Walker wins with 53%, it's barely measurable?
The libs really are math challenged.
Me - "The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years - the cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil."
Pathetic Spin
Submitted by chasnmil on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 3:37am.
For those of you who do not live in WI, please do not even attempt to defend the "outspent" argument as it is a load of BS. This one fact alone (not that we needed more) bares naked the bias in the media. I live in the city of Milwaukee, a crappy neighborhood at that, and I would like to pass a long a few underreported FACTS:
1) When reporting the $$ contributed, nobody seems to mention the $$ it took to organize the recall effort to begin with? Hmm, well , we live next to a Days Inn (nice clean hotel) that was PACKED for weeks late last-year and earlier this year when they were organizing the signatures for the recall. Well, I dont need to tell you that there were a majority of license plates that were from out of state (for weeks). Also, they decided to "Occupy" a bridge near our house and I decided to visit and see what degnerates were attending this event. I know a WI accent and I didnt hear many that night.
2) Walker didnt raise this money for kicks and, frankly, wouldnt have needed to if he wasnt being RECALLED. I gave to his campaign in 2010 but couldnt afford to this time. I am glad that others filled in where I wasnt able to because it is BS that a bunch of whiners somehow feel that my vote (and 1.2 million others) were somehow worth-less (or worthless) becuase they didnt like them. What happened to equal rights?
3) Regarding $$ spent again, I can tell you (first hand) that I had no less than 12 people knock on my door in the last 5 days. Offering to take me to the polls or to "educate" me on the candidates. When I asked where they were from or for their cell numbers (in case I wanted to talk) only 2 were from WI and NONE were volunteers. I dont see how paying for someone to come here from NY or PA, putting them in a hotel, feeding them, and paying them for their time, doesnt count as a contribution?
I truly despise liberals more today than I did yesterday becuase before today they just tried to overturn my vote (but I was allowed the opportunity to recast it at least). Today they are attempting to invatidate my vote and insulting me and the other 1.3 million others who (with only conviction -- i.e NO union coersceion) ecided to get out to vote.
My dislike for these pathetic people is only matched by my empathy as they are troubled by the possiblity that all their union/liberal propaghanda is just empty rhetoric and that despite their tantrums, they werent able to win over a single voter. Just like my kids, these losers need a "time out." Unfortunately, there are no adults around to give them one.
Good night
A conservative could outspend
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Thu, 06/07/2012 - 3:51am.
A conservative could outspend his socialist counterpart by a factor of 100 and still not come close to buying all of the favorable airtime that their socialist counterpart gets for free from the media.
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