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Results? and also, john, your take on this unbelievable media tour that he is on. every right wing heavy weight is helping this guy out with visibility, raising money, this is a national campaign. do you think he was blind-sided by the million signatures? he was absolutely blind-sided, ed. governor walker and his lieutenant governor, who faces recall, saying the progressive forces that go beyond the democratic party that set out to do the recall had fallen short of their goal. the lieutenant governor said that they would only get 700,000, 720,000, and she said that was a defeat because they di...

>> in terms of the magnitude of that, we talk about big numbers a lot in the news, not just about dollars, but often people, the million voter threshold is somebody nobody seriously floated before it happened today. can you give us some sense of how big that number is and how unexpected that was? it seems like it's much higher than even the democrats highest target. >> yeah, i was very surprised when mike tate the chair of the party said 720,000 signatures i thought that would be great. then i started hearing 800,000, 900,000, i thought that would be high, but a million is huge. think about it...

The million voter threshold is somebody nobody seriously floated before it happened today. can you give us some sense of how big that number is and how unexpected that was? it seems like it's much higher than even the democrats highest target. >> yeah, i was very surprised when mike tate the chair of the party said 720,000 signatures i thought that would be great. then i started hearing 800,000, 900,000, i thought that would be high, but a million is huge. think about it we had 60 days to gather signatures, thousands of volunteers were scattered throughout the state and on average gathered ove...

Supposed to be working, this was the scene today in wisconsin. today, people who have been organizing to recall republican governor scott walker from office walked boxes upon boxes of signed petitions to the offices of the government accountability board in wisconsin. these folks say they can't wait until the next election, they cannot wait, they want governor scott walker out of office now, before his term is up. today, they turned in their petitions to qualify the scott walker recall for the ballot. the minimum signatures they need is half a million. the organizers said they were aiming for ...

Signatures opposing you can be measured in tons, you may have a problem. this morning before the signatures were turned in, governor walker appeared on a wisconsin radio show explaining that no way were his opponents going to get a million signatures against him. >> the interesting thing, charlie, say they turn in 720,000 -- >> that put scott walker in office in the first place, in 2010. instead, what they got was nearly a quarter of the state of wisconsin's entire voting population. to sign the petition to recall scott walker. oh, but wait, there's more. organizers say they turned in 1.9 mi...