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Back to 1993 all of which he won in wisconsin. why has he been able to win all those elections in wisconsin when he performed so unbelievably badly at the national level? do you have insight into that, having seen him operate in your state all these years? >> yeah, i have. and he won his first election in my opinion, rachel, by saying one thing all over the state of wisconsin and doing something completely different when he got into office. act 10 is a great example. he didn't talk about taking away collective bargaining rights, talked about sitting down with the unions. never once talked abou...

2009. it was made possible by the huge spike in federal spending thanks in large part to the stimulus bill. it is up, that federal spending is up 93% the last decade, and federal money now accounts for more than a third of all state expenditures. >> the real world where we are is if i have more money to spend this year than last year, even if it's not as much as i wanted, that's an increase. so state government has been having increases steadily, just not as high as legislators would like. >> reporter: fiscal conservatives say the way to cut government is to take away the collective bargaining...

Needed to show photo i.d. in order to vote. voters do not need to do that in new hampshire but it was a nice reminder that new hampshire republicans in the state legislature are trying to change that to force photo i.d. in wisconsin itself where a major recall effort is under way after governor scott walker and republicans wildly unpopular union stripping adventure, republicans there, too, are scurrying to pass one of the most restrictive voting laws in the entire country. it would be a radical change for wisconsin. it would also be an expensive change. wisconsin's voter restriction bill exp...