let s take a break to the magic wall to show why we re predicting why scott walker will keep his job as governor of wisconsin. number one, it s obvious. red is republican. you see a lot of red. let s break it down closer. dane county here, this is the this is the key county for democrats in the state, about 8% of the population. democrats say their turnout operation worked well there. but tom barrett the democrat getting 60% and scott walker getting 40% right there. tom barrett needs to be at about 70%. he needs to be up around 70% in this key county right there. let s come back to the map here a little bit. come over here to the mill kauky suburbs. this is waukesha county. the key county for republicans in this state. 75%, scott walker got just over 70% last time. he s overperforming. what we are seeing as we go from county to county in all of the key counties, come up here, brown county where green bay st, walker getti inting 60% with 70 the vote in. that s an improvement f
i m erin burnett. we are getting exit polls from wisconsin where republican governor scott walker is fighting to keep his job in what likely is the most expensive recall election. the results of the election will say a lot about how the state and the country is going to go in november. that, of course, is the $64 trillion question. john king with the exit poll numbers. what is crossing right now? could be the $80 million question. the results are fascinating. we are going to be up late tonight. this is a very close race. what started all this? a big fight over efforts to restrict collective bargaining rights to get union members to pay more for health care. our union members dominating the vote today. interesting question. 32% of the vote is in the recall election say someone in their house hold is a union member. it was in the 20s in the 2010 election. this tells you the labor unions are getting turnout. we are seeing other data suggesting republican voters are coming out
captions by vitac www.vitac.com we begin in wisconsin where voters have three more hours to cast ballots in an effort to recall their republican governor scott walker and replace him with the democratic mayor tom barrett. both parties see it as a potential weather vane for november s election. the exit polls are fascinating to begin with, number one and number two show a very close race and how polarized and partisan the electorate is. we mentioned governor walker s efforts to limit collective bargaining rights, strongly disapprove of the efforts, 38% of those voting today strongly days prove but let s come to the other end, 37% strongly approve, that tells you why we think this is going to be a close race as we go through, the others in the middle there. that s the defining issue in the race. look at the electorate again today another close divide, 35% of those voting today are democrats, 33% are republicans, we get that to highlight, 32% of the electorate today indepe
demanding answers whether president president believes the supreme court has the right to strike down his healthcare law. shannon bream will have the latest in a live report. president obama called out of the presidential candidates by name. we get live reaction from the press secretary jay carney and analysis from brit hume. voters here from washington, d.c., wisconsin, heading to the poll in presidential primaries. we give you a first look at the exit poll data. special report from washington starts at 6:00 eastern. a lot of politics and legal issues. now back to new york and five five. greg: am i like 14 years old?
wisconsin, maryland and the district of columbia. polls are closing in less than an hour s time. we have the first insight into who voted today, why they voted as mitt romney is looking to lock up the republican nomination once and for all. there have been a lot of night wheres we have said that and it has not occurred. you have been looking at exit poling data. what do you see? we have our first indication and the first and best mysteries of this election and it is right up here in wisconsin. largely a rural place and agriculture going on. biggest prize is in milwaukee. 18% of the population. let s look at the exit polls. we ll talk about the mystery here. look at how this primary worked out. it is an open primary. 58% of the people say republican. 30% say they are independent and 12% say they were democrats. i am just going to show you part of this. 12% are democrat and out of that 32% say for rick santorum. 22% for mitt romney among the democrats. you are saying how is i