[lbo-talk] Wisconsin recall results

[Wojtek S]

[WS:]  This puts to rest the long brewing on this list controversy
about the "progressive mandate" that Obama or any other politician
supposedly received from the voters.  These results clearly show that
there is no such a thing - progressives have no chance of gaining any
meaningful electoral victory under the current system, and most
politicians understand that darn well.  End of story.  It is time that
people who think otherwise wake up and stop deluding themselves.

Wojtek

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:04 AM, // ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
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> The below went out later than I had planned it to… the results now: the GOP has won one of the three “close to call” seats => they will retain control of the WI senate.
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>        —ravi
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> On Aug 10, 2011, at 9:51 AM, // ravi wrote:
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>> Some background: Democrats needed to retain all 3 of their Senate seats under recall and win 3 of 6 GOP recall seats to take control of the Senate (the recalls were in response to Gov Walker’s successful attempt to smash collective bargaining). Things aren’t looking too good on that front:
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>> http://l.ravi.be/r0cxr2
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>> Democrats have retained one of their seats in an election held last week. Two more are coming up next week. Of the six GOP, three have now been called for the incumbents. Which means Dems will need to win all three remaining ones, all of which are too close to call at this point.
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>> What all this says about the state of US and Wisconsin politics and the mood of the electorate I leave to you to inform me on,
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