Walker Recall in Wisconsin

Most of you are aware that there has been a huge campaign in Wisconsin to recall governor Scott Walker. The recall has been the major effort of the public employee unions together with the Democrat party ever since last year's passage of legislation that removed the right to collective bargaining on benefits for public employees. Recently, the pro-recall forces turned in petitions that are supposed to have over a million signatures on them supporting recall. While many of the signatures have been determined to be bogus, there will surely be a sufficient number that are authenticated to require a recall election. In the face of such a concerted effort agaist Walker, you would think that Walker would be likely to be thrown out. Not so! The latest polls against his two principal opponents for a recall election show Walker 6 or 7 points ahead with just about half of the vote. He also has a positive job approval rating (54%), so Walker looks like he will survive.

Normally, polls taken this long before the actual election would not be important. Since the issues and the personalities have been thrust before the public in Wisconsin for so many months, however, these polls have to be very bad news for the unions and very good news for the governor.