Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Recall election

  • First-term Republican Gov. Scott Walker will win the Wisconsin recall election, CBS News estimates, beating back a labor-backed effort to unseat him and again handing defeat to his Democratic challenger, 58-year-old Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.
  • (CBS News)
  • Based on exit polls and results so far, the New York Times and CNN have called the Wisconsin recall election for incumbent Republican Scott Walker.
  • (San Jose Mercury News)
  • The Wisconsin recall election results have all eyes on the Badger State. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) challenged Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) in Tuesdays gubernatorial contest.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • She described turnout as just wild. State election officials had predicted 60 percent to 65 percent of the voting age population will cast ballots in the recall election.
  • (United Press International)
  • FOX News can now project that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a Republican, will survive his recall election, beating back a challenge by Democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.
  • (FOX News)
  • MADISON, Wis. — Wis. Gov. Scott Walker is only the third governor in U.S. history to face a recall vote.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Wisconsin's Republican Governor Scott Walker repelled an effort to oust him, defeating Democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in only the third recall election of a state chief executive in U.S. history.
  • (Businessweek)
  • In theory, in 19 cases out of 20, the results from such polls should differ by no more than plus or minus 4 percentage points from what would have been obtained by seeking to survey all voters who participated in the Wisconsin recall election.
  • (New York Times)
  • Wisconsin gave Gov. Scott Walker a renewed lease Tuesday, voting to keep the Republican in office in a recall election that amounted to an embrace of his union-busting, government-trimming agenda in this traditionally Democratic-leaning state.
  • (Washington Times)

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