A logical man, apparently, has no insights into the mind of one Scott Walker:
Gov. Scott Walker said this afternoon that the spring election results show there are "two very different worlds in this state.""You've got a world driven by Madison, and a world driven by everybody else out across the majority of the rest of the state of Wisconsin," Walker said at a press conference in the Capitol.
This is a fairly typical, and obnoxious, bit of post-election spin, not unlike the standard right-wing attempt to pacify themselves after a loss by pointing out if it weren't for those pesky nonwhite voters, all would have been well.
And, quite frankly, if Walker wants to delude himself into thinking that yesterday's election results aren't indicative of a larger movement driven by antipathy towards him, let him. The evidence is pretty obvious:
- Of the 20 counties in Wisconsin that came the closest to mimicking their 2010 gubernatorial turnout, fourteen of them were carried by Kloppenburg. Conversely, of the 20 counties in the state that saw the biggest dropoff from their 2010 turnout levels, Prosser won 13 of them.
- Justice Prosser did worse in 51 of the state's 72 counties, when compared to his performance in the judicial primary elections back on February 15th. In fully twenty of those counties, Prosser slid by more than five points.
- Looking back just six months ago, Kloppenburg outperformed 2010 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett in all but six counties.
If Walker had wisdom (I know...I know), he'd realize that he might not only have lost a conservative majority on the court, but he might be on the way towards losing the state Senate, as well.
Look at some of the places where Prosser took the biggest beating last night. In the district of GOP state Senator Dan Kapanke, where petitions were filed in the past few days, Prosser fell 60-40.
Meanwhile, Randy Hopper, likely the next recall prospect (with petitions due within the week) watched the most GOP part of his district go from 71% Prosser in February to just 61% last night.
The sea change in voter preferences was not limited to Democratic recall targets. GOPers are claiming that they are nearing meeting the standard to put a recall of Democratic Sen. Robert Wirch on the ballot. Wirch, however, can be calmed slightly by the fact that his home county (Kenosha), a classic swing county, went from 56% Prosser in the primary to just 47% in his favor last night. It was the 10th biggest swing in the Democrats' direction last night, and one of the few that wasn't a GOP stronghold to begin with.
Walker's insistence that the people were four-square on his side to this point has been a tremendous boon to Democrats, who now are exceedingly likely to have a majority on the state Supreme Court to show for it. If he wants to insist that Prosser's defeat had nothing to do with him, Democrats would probably be well served by this reluctance to accept the truth.
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