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Thursday, May 24, 2012

MundiMuster! If Democrats Get Out the Vote in Wisconsin, Walker Gets Kicked Out

The money avalanche on Walker's side is having its impact, a prime-time tide of deceptive talking points without high-profile pushback is having its impact, a mildly improving economy that Obama deserves the credit for, not Walker, is having its impact, the choice of the understated imperfect Barrett and consequent re-framing of an insurgent recall into a stale re-match is having its impact... and yet there is no question that Wisonsin will fervently regret the missed chance to recall Walker if they fail to rise up in their actually existing numbers and vote to express their actually existing values to bring about the better outcome within their reach.

The polls look terrible to me, the organizing looks like it's puttering a bit within sight of the finish line. We've seen this awful movie before. So, flip the script, don't just watch the damn thing bleakly unfold!

Republicans will spin an epic narrative for the general election from a Democratic defeat here that will be reiterated in so many incessant bulldozing ball-scratching self-congratulatory variations that every decent American will want to claw their ears off rather than hear one more time how Real Murcans want to couponize Medicare and lard billionaires with cash and smash the commie unions of spoiled teachers and public workers and on and on and on and on. Is it really so hard to see what is coming and imagine how much you will hate it and regret it when it comes? This isn't "The Future," this is looming just two weeks ahead.

There is plenty we all can do about it. This is simply a matter of Getting Out the Vote. The numbers are there. The desire has palpably been there. With failure, buyer's remorse will bring the desire ferociously back again... when it's too late to be of any use to anybody.

You can do something. You should do something. You will wish you had done something. Do it!

Make a contribution to help recall the odious anti-labor anti-democracy celebrity Republican Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker.

If you can't part with your hard-earned cash at the moment because you're strapped and you can't knock on doors because you aren't in the state, you probably can devote an hour to making a few phone calls. It's easy.

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