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original race in 2010 and his victory speech put a national spin on the local win. >> tonight, tonight we tell wisconsin, we tell our country, and we tell people all across the globe that voters really do want leaders who stand up and make the tough decisions. >> cnn's ted rowlands for us this morning is in madison. good morning to you, ted. >> reporter: good morning, soledad. you see the video of that woman slapping tom barrett, and a lot of talk about that, obviously, this morning. we don't know who that woman is and we've been trying to find out who she is, and whether or not she ...

i want to bring in mark preston to talk about with what all of this means. i guess in a way mark, we knew that things were partisan. that's not surprising. but if you look at how pew researchers measure this, 48 different ways of measuring how we feel about politics over the years, and they find that we're more divided than ever. almost double over the past 25 years. why? >> you know suzanne, talk about a comprehensive study that pew has done now, you know, there's a lot of reasons. and what's interesting is that it shows that not only are we more divided politically but also seeing ...

not necessarily legitimately because both leading democrats and leading republicans say wisconsin is its own microcosm, but the reason it is so relevant is because debt and spending have been major issues there. those are major national issues. and many of the big picture issues we' seen play out across the nation are playing out in wisconsin right now, namely money and the influence of super pacs. an independent nonpartisan group estimates dlfr 70 million to $80 million will be spent in the state of wisconsin. that's mind blowing in to a state where air time is so inexpensive. gover...

Barrett in next month's recall election. barrett beat out three other democrats in yesterday's primary and walker beat barrett in the 2010 governor's race and you can now call her a swiss miss. congressman michele bachmann has become a citizen of switzerland in addition to the u.s. her spokeswoman says she was eligible to become a swiss citizen because her husband's parents were raised in switzerland. she says the children recently won a dual citizenship so she went through the process as well. two lawmakers introduced a bill to make military members eligible for purple hearts if they are vict...

War. this divided electorate in wisconsin really mirroring what we are seeing on the national scene. there's been a flood of out-of-state money into wisconsin, $64 million, and interestingly, this is their second matchup. walker beat barrett two years ago. >> tracie potts in washington, thanks. last night on "the rachel maddow show," former wisconsin state senator mordecai lee talked about the ground game telling rachel due to this being a simple ballot count, voter to turnout is as important as it's ever been. >> we're going back to 19th century elections where the only thick that counts is...