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Look what its done already. this law is designed to make the unions go away because they strip union rights. its not just to directly hurt those people, although it does that, but its to make sure democrats can never compete in elections. the right is ecstatic about this. think about the possibility for long-term takeover. a documented $30 million has flowed to scott walker for his recall campaign. john nichols says it will probably be like $40 million flowing to scott walker. you can just feel ...

Between republican governor scott walker of wisconsin. that the republican party would like to make their poster child and his challenger tom barrett from the democrat party which would also like to make scott walker the poster child. well be watching the results closely as they come in over the course of the night. i have no projection for you in terms of when we think we will get a final result. weve got a big 0% in. nbc news is able to characterize this race as too close to call looking not a...

Radical legislation coming through. theyll be able to probably fence off the "right to work" legislation that the democrats think walker is going to show up with and the effort there. it is also going to slow down any kind of radical voting suppression laws that the democrats have said that they are committed to stopping. so this is definitely going to slow down government in wisconsin. no question about that. but this is also an opportunity for the republicans to gain a great deal of confidence...

Were in line when the polls closed rkts they have to let you vote. they cant close the door in your face. do you have an overall sense whether or not well see a split decision tonight? whether or not we might see the governors race and lieutenant governors race go to two different parties. do you think people are going to vote straight ticket today? >> i think people are going to vote straight ticket because the democrats care deeply about tom barrett and mahlon mitchell. i think the republicans...

Over in montana, you may remember this state attorney general who we had on the show the other day about his fight against citizens united. a fight thats going to the united states supreme court. he, steve bullock is considered likely to win the democratic e primary for governor. polls close there at the top of the hour in montana. its a read state thats happy with its blue governor. in new jersey, its democratic congressman versus democratic congressman. they are both democrats. they are both i...

But it also sets a real clear message to what democrats are going to be up against coming up in november and i think it sends a message to what kind of ground game is going to be needed to fight off the special-interest money thats coming into a lot of races around the country where they are going to be outgunned financially. so its going to be a tough question. no question. a lot of disappointed people. there were a lot of high hopes that this was going to turn around for the people of wisconsi...

Kristen dexter. another recall is in district 21. hes the best name in all of this mess. i still have no confidence that im saying it correctly. hes facing a democratic challenger. the last senate recall is for a seat where the incup bent republican quit once she found out that her seat was going to be up for recall. this is a very republican district. republicans are hoping to be able to hold on. its an open seat because the republican incumbent quit. again, the big one here, the one that every...

November race. one thing thats cool about it in a totally non-partisan way is how you see people are excited on both sides. sometimes that looks like discord and sometimes people look frustrated that they have to talk about politics when they have to talk about something else, but theres legitimate investment in this democratic process in a way you cannot deny and you cant deny is really american and really small d democratic. whats happening in wisconsin, they may have voted seven times in 14 m...

Enc enchilada. its everything for them. the only thing democrats have been able to come up with, the only competition the democrats offer the republicans at all in terms of big money and campaigns is from the unions. what happens if you kill the unions? if republican can use policy at the state level to kill unions, there will no longer be two sides competing when it comes to big money in elections. it will be all republican money no maert wtter who the candidat are, no matter what the office is...

In california. if wisconsin was not happening the same day, this would be the politics story everybody was fixated on. shes the senior democratic senator from california. shes the incumbent. shes running for re-election. i want you to look at the ballot that she is running on. california changed its rules, so in a race like this, these scrolling names, this is the ballot. there isnt a democratic primary and a republican primary and the winner of each of those primaries run in the general electio...