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He got when he was first elected in 2010. >> 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 h...

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 720,000. that would give them a nice cushion in case some were ruled to be invalid. when it came time to turn them in today...

Simultaneously at home in wisconsin where scott walker is 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...

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 million signatures, about a million of those are for the recall of governor scott walker. they also t...

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