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Why Are Democrats Losing the Wisconsin Recall?

The battle over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, raging for the last 15 months, finally comes to a head next week with the recall election that could oust him from the statehouse. But Republicans seem very, very sure that won’t happen.

In the final days before Tuesday’s vote on whether to retain Walker or replace him with Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, Republicans are crowing as if they’ve already won, while Democrats strain to insist they’re still in it. […]

The gelling conventional wisdom that Walker is set to triumph was bolstered by a Marquette Law School poll released Wednesday afternoon that showed Walker ahead by 7 percentage points. The independent poll, conducted May 23-26, put Walker at 52 percent of the vote to Barrett’s 45 percent, outside the 4.1-point margin of error. And you couldn’t really argue that the poll was slanted toward the GOP: It also showed President Obama leading Mitt Romney, 51 percent to 43 percent.

So is the Walker race really over? And if so, what happened?

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   good call.

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   C’mon guys. Get ready. It’s not over yet.

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    I hope Walker wins. Ask me why.

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    This is horribly depressing.

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    Hegemony. That’s what happened.

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    UGH UGH UGH UGH NOOOOOOO!!!!!

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    Walker is going to win because of 6 things: Job numbers are up, which he may or may not have anything to do with (I have...

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    I’ll be shocked if Walker is recalled. There just doesn’t seem to be enough energy behind Barrett. Maybe if Feingold had...

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