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Now, Walker out-fundraised Barrett in Wisconsin, as well as outside the state. \u00a0But the part Dems never, ever tell you is that the Dems, as usual, outspent the GOP on independent expenditures by over $1.6 million<\/p>\n
As everyone knew they would.<\/p>\n
But they got outspent by the Walker campaign. \u00a0Which brings us to the second point:<\/p>\n
Answer 2: Boo Freaking Hoo<\/strong>\u00a0– So the Democrats got outspent?<\/p>\nIn a recall that they forced?<\/em><\/p>\nThere is not one single person in the entire Wisconsin\u00a0Democrat\u00a0party that knew that there would be no campaign finance restrictions on the race? \u00a0And that the GOP would call in every dog it could for this fight? \u00a0That Reince Priebus wouldn’t run his rolodex red-hot to defend the win he earned back in 2010? \u00a0And that the Tea Party wouldn’t absolutely slam <\/em>the organizing?<\/p>\nBecause there are only a few possible explanations:<\/p>\n
\n- There was, in fact, nobody who knew <\/strong>. \u00a0It’d seem to be a drastic mistake, forcing a recall without knowing the laws involved. \u00a0Just saying.<\/li>\n
- They knew, but figured that sheer Fleebagger passion would carry them through<\/strong>. \u00a0It’s the kind of hubris that is explainable, if not necessarily excusable.<\/li>\n
- They knew, but figured the GOP would screw it up<\/strong>. \u00a0Not a bad assumtion, under normal circumstances. \u00a0But the GOP – or at least the Tea Party-influenced part of it – is learning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
At any rate, it was the Wisconsin Democrats who asked for the recall. \u00a0So they got outspent?<\/p>\n
Sucks to be them!<\/p>\n
Answer 3: Hypocrisy<\/strong>\u00a0– So winning an election by spending lots of outside money is a bad thing?<\/p>\nWell, tell it to Mark Dayton, whose 8,000 vote margin of victory was paid for by…:<\/p>\n
\n- An epic toxic smear campaign financed by Alita Messinger, a scionette of the Rockefeller family who dumps millions of her own money into Minnesota astroturf groups, which managed to convince just enough low-information voters that Tom Emmer had a DUI to cost him whatever…<\/li>\n
- The DFL-friendly travesty of an election-registration system didn’t provide Dayton.<\/li>\n
- Which, by the way, outspent Emmer and the GOP by at least 2:1. \u00a0More like 3:1, if memory serves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In Minnesota, you have truckloads of outside money financing outreach to dumb voters and creation of illegal voters to win elections for the DFL.<\/p>\n
I’ll await your peals of outrage.<\/p>\n
And await.<\/p>\n
And await.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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