Scott Walker recall goes live

[Eraserhead]

have reports from polling locations on Milwaukee's South, North, East sides, and downtown and didn't have any lines/wait.

Where are you getting that from?

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

have reports from polling locations on Milwaukee's South, North, East sides, and downtown and didn't have any lines/wait.

Where are you getting that from?

His arse, everything I've read says that turnout is record breaking there: 200 new voters registered at one heavily Latino ward in central Milwaukee.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Naturally, I'd be thrilled to see Walker recalled. I still think he'll narrowly hang on, though. I'd love to be wrong

[Lief 🗽]

What sort of awful exit poll doesn't include absentee/early voters?

[hawkeye59]

Fair point from Chuck Todd of NBC News, via twitter: Exit poll junkies, do you realize that some 10-12% of the electorate voted absentee in WI. Absentee voters not surveyed for exit poll.

Quite a few of which are college students.

[rob in cal]

Also, with such a huge turnout, I wonder if the turnout model that the exit polls are using are skewed.  I'm also wondering if the size of the early/absentee vote is unprecedented, and thus being underreported by the exit polls.

[Eraserhead]

In other news, a Madison CBS News reporter tweeted this: CBS exit poll: Of Barrett voters 53% vote for Barrett 45% against Walker. Of Walker voters 9/10 vote for Walker 8% against Barrett #wirecall

Wow, I'm surprised a majority of Barrett voters say they voted "for" him. Not exactly the most inspiring guy in the world.

[Lief 🗽]

What sort of awful exit poll doesn't include absentee/early voters?

The whole point of an exit poll is that you POLL voters as they EXIT their polling location. How would you exit poll an absentee voter?

Exit pollsters generally include phone interviews of absentee/early voters, or else their numbers would be worthless.

[LastVoter]

I wonder why Feingold declined to run, if 8% of Walker voters are voting against Walker, I am sure that number would be less if it was Feingold running. Also the base would be even more enthusiastic since probably 70 to 80% would be voting FOR Feingold.

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

It's a tad late to be asking this, but were there any recent polls on the Lt. Gubernatorial recall?  I'd love to see that Sarah Palin lookalike lose her job today.

[RogueBeaver]

Most polls have Kleefisch ahead by slightly smaller margins than Walker.

[Negusa Nagast 🚀]

Looks like Walker will win by a slightly smaller margin than in 2010.

The Senate races will be more interesting tbh.

[Napoleon]

I wonder why Feingold declined to run, if 8% of Walker voters are voting against Walker, I am sure that number would be less if it was Feingold running. Also the base would be even more enthusiastic since probably 70 to 80% would be voting FOR Feingold.

I think he is done with elected politics.

[Smash255]

Anyone have any links to the results?

[RogueBeaver]

CNN will have it live, but if you want Internet results Politico is usually the fastest.

http://www.politico.com/2012-election/map/#/Governor/2012/Primary/WI

Should also keep this as a separate tab- CNN's 2010 results map.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2010/results/county/#WIG00p1

[Phony Moderate]

Anyone have any links to the results?

http://www.politico.com/2012-election/map/

[Nhoj]

I decided to wait to vote tell now since I wanted to see what the approximate turnout would be. I was voter 391 in my township. for comparison the total turnout number for 2010 was 363, in 2008 the number was 486. So with about an hour left I will predict 401.

[Nhoj]

I decided to wait to vote tell now since I wanted to see what the approximate turnout would be. I was voter 391 in my township. for comparison the total turnout number for 2010 was 363, in 2008 the number was 486. So with about an hour left I will predict 401.

Thanks for that info. Mind telling us what county you live in?

Barron county. one of the more republican townships but I don't expect turnout to be much different county wide.

[AmericanNation]

have reports from polling locations on Milwaukee's South, North, East sides, and downtown and didn't have any lines/wait.

Where are you getting that from?

His arse, everything I've read says that turnout is record breaking there: 200 new voters registered at one heavily Latino ward in central Milwaukee.

I wasn't talking about the entire day, just that point in time.  chill.  

[AmericanNation]

reports... GOP base votes in Ozaukee, Washington, Waukesha Counties are off the charts

[Brittain33]

reports... GOP base votes in Ozaukee, Washington, Waukesha Counties are off the charts

News is pretty consistent that turnout was high across the board. Good thing that in 15 minutes we'll start to get some real results.

[Brittain33]

have reports from polling locations on Milwaukee's South, North, East sides, and downtown and didn't have any lines/wait.

Where are you getting that from?

His arse, everything I've read says that turnout is record breaking there: 200 new voters registered at one heavily Latino ward in central Milwaukee.

I wasn't talking about the entire day, just that point in time.  chill.  

Who was reporting simultaneously from five places in Milwaukee that no one was voting? I trust this is up on the web somewhere.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

People who post false rumours ought to be banned, IMO. And if that's what you are doing, then I'll lobby behind the scenes to do just that...

[AmericanNation]

have reports from polling locations on Milwaukee's South, North, East sides, and downtown and didn't have any lines/wait.

Where are you getting that from?

His arse, everything I've read says that turnout is record breaking there: 200 new voters registered at one heavily Latino ward in central Milwaukee.

I wasn't talking about the entire day, just that point in time.  chill.  

Who was reporting simultaneously from five places in Milwaukee that no one was voting? I trust this is up on the web somewhere.

Brookfield Elementary (wd11,12,13) 2,687 cast as of 5pm 2,982 cast there, total, in Nov 2010
 
...apparently Stephen Hayes was the source

[Brittain33]

Who was reporting simultaneously from five places in Milwaukee that no one was voting? I trust this is up on the web somewhere.

Brookfield Elementary (wd11,12,13) 2,687 cast as of 5pm 2,982 cast there, total, in Nov 2010
 
...apparently Stephen Hayes was the source
[/quote]

No offense, but have you ever worked an election in a city before? You get large numbers of people only after work. Do you think they stopped at 5.