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A woman casts her ballot Tuesday in Milwaukee. Wisconsin. (AP)
BY: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MADISON, Wis. — The battle over Gov. Scott Walker’s agenda has attracted millions of dollars from out of state, campaign volunteers from across the country and months of concentrated attention from the two major political parties.
But on Tuesday, the only voices that matter will be those of Wisconsin voters deciding whether to keep Walker or fire him and hand his job to the Milwaukee mayor. After more than a year in the national spotlight, both sides are preparing for a razor-thin margin.
Polls show Walker, a Republican just 17 months into his term, with a small lead over Democrat Tom Barrett.
“Now it’s our turn to speak,” an exuberant Barrett told campaign workers Monday in Portage. “We the people of the state of Wisconsin are going to reclaim our future.”
During Monday’s first campaign stop, Walker said he expects a close race, too, and he’s focused on turning out voters who supported his efforts to take on public-employee unions.
“We want to move on and move forward,” Walker said at a plastics plant near Madison. He was joined by his wife, Tonette, who wore a button that read “Luv My Gov.”
Walker planned other campaign stops at a brewery in Stevens Point and a distillery in Green Bay before wrapping up with a nighttime rally in Milwaukee.
Barrett was spending most of Monday in western and northern Wisconsin before ending his day with a rally at a United Auto Workers union hall in Kenosha.
Walker is only the third governor in U.S. history to face a recall vote. The other two lost, most recently California Gov. Gray Davis in 2003. Wisconsin’s recall election is a rematch of the 2010 governor’s race in which Walker defeated Barrett by 5 percentage points.
We also checked in on the state primary in Montana Tuesday. They have a Republican rep Denny Rehberg leaving his chair to try for the Senate seat of Democratic Senator Jon Tester. We talked with Mike Dennison, who covers politics for Lee newspapers in Helena, Montana. We asked Mike what the result has been? Press play to hear his interview and our answer.
Guest:
- Dan Simmons, reporter for the Wisconsin State Journal. He Tweets @MadDanWSJ
