Foot Execution, Wisconsin Style

[Jackpine Radical]

There were active right-wing efforts to suppress the votes here in 2010. Those efforts worked pretty well.

Not voting resulted in the election of a governor who became so wildly unpopular within 2 months of taking office that the whole state is up ion arms & ready to ride him to the State Line on a rail. Voter inaction resulted in waking up a helluva lot more people across the nation than would have happened if Tom Barrett had been elected & just given us a normal, reasonably progressive administration.

Now the Reptilians are in the process of learning the meaning of "blowback."

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Reality check here-- just who didn't vote? Wisconsin had a huge turnout last November

Now, if you want to bitch about lazy-ass Democrats who couldn't get off their asses to vote, go right ahead-- as long as you can prove the mess was caused by said lazy-ass Democrats and not just by being outvoted by stirred-up teabaggers.


http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20101103/GPG0101/101103089/Wisconsin-voter-turnout-A-strong-50-

About 50 percent of Wisconsin voters participated in Tuesday’s election, a heavy turnout for a non-presidential election year.

Preliminary figures show 2.16 million Wisconsin residents voted in the U.S. Senate race between Russ Feingold and Ron Johnson, just under half of Wisconsin’s voting age population.

The Government Accountability Board predicted the 50 percent turnout, which would be just under the 51 percent from the 2006 election but still the fourth highest in a non-presidential year since 1962.
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http://badgerherald.com/news/2010/11/03/high_turnout_caused_.php

With hotly contested races for governor and senate, high voter turnout statewide caused some problems at polling places, officials said.

Government Accountability Board spokesperson Reid Magney said voter turnout was heavy statewide. The GAB predicted voter turnout to be 50 percent.

Voter turnout in Dane County was 66.7 percent, with 220,205 ballots cast of the 330,268 people eligible, a Badger Herald analysis showed.

Wisconsin does not report official numbers on election night, including results and voter turnout.

Officials in Columbia County needed to print extra ballots as a result of the high voter turnout, Magney said.
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[pansypoo53219]

2. it was not HUGE.

except for teahadists. the economy not great too. typical mid terms. only 50%. and the airwaves was full of corporate/GOP ads.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. 4th largest off-year turnout in over 40 years isn't huge? Well, OK, but...

you still gotta show it was teabaggers who turned out. And the turnout was still really, really big, even if you don't want to call it "huge."

Ya see, ya can't keep saying things that either aren't true or can't be demonstrated.

That's called "lying" and it's what the other guys do to get their ignorant herd all stirred up.

FWIW, what I do know a lot about is our local election last year where we lost a good state legislator and almost lost a good congressman, thanks to teabaggery. We also had a record turnout, but the problem wasn't that Democrats stayed home in any greater numbers than usual, but that independents were stirred up by the teabaggers and showed up in record numbers. If that happened in Wisconsin, show it.