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Fri May 18, 2012, 10:23 AM May 2012

WI Recall: Democrats targeting 2008 voters who sat out 2010 elections

In an effort to prevent a replay of the last election, which saw a conservative electorate sweep a record number of Republicans into office, state Democrats are targeting voters who favored their party's candidates in 2008 but sat out the election in 2010, the year Republican Gov. Scott Walker won office.

“We are proactively targeting these voters,” says Phil Walzak, a spokesman for Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, who faces Walker in a political rematch in the June 5 recall election. “These voters included more women and more middle-aged voters, people under 55. In 2008, they were more involved, more animated.”

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WI Recall: Democrats targeting 2008 voters who sat out 2010 elections (Original Post) WI_DEM May 2012 OP
Smart and YES!! Lifelong Protester May 2012 #1
For Wisconsin and the fricking country, I hope it workds. Vidar May 2012 #2
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