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Apart from just drawing the contrast with president obama, also needed to -- also needed to sort of draw a line and explain to people why what his vision for the presidency would be. >> and then you got scott walker. where is scott walker coming down with mitt romney in terms of police, firemen, and the teachers? and the whole question of union bargaining, public union bargaining? >> what's interesting about it is obviously the republicans including the rnc chairman, who is from wisconsin, himself, tried to draw a pretty broad national conclusion about the recall election last week. and i thin...

There wasn't going to be any voter fraud. we know that the republican party has trained so many poll watching volunteers and they are out in force. now that the polls have closed, we have only to wait and hope that the voters of wisconsin are responding to our positive message of moving the state forward. >> sean: this is my analysis of your race. maybe i am right or maybe i'm wrong. >> okay. >> sean: both you and the governor have come under tremendous pressure. it seems that wisconsin to me is a microcosm of what is happening nationally, government spending more money than they are taking in...

Returns, we are taking a look at the impact that the unions had on the race n. 1996, bill clinton declared, quote, the era of big government is over. fast forward because tonight an historic win by republican governor scott walker would signal that it's the beginning of the end for the era of big labor in america. here to talk about what appears to be the declining influence of unions, stuart varny and co-host of "the five," andrea tantaros. this seeps to be ground zero, waning influence. can they have an impact? what if it's close, though? let's say the exit polls are right and it's very clos...

Either people support balanced budgets and reform, or they're not. i think in this case, they are going to go with the walker, you know, term in office, which i think is going to be very telling. do you not see it that way? >> i think that the polls show that walker is favored to win this thing. he's been up 5-7 points. >> sean: 3 in the most recent. >> some say it was even. but have you such an extraordinarily high turnout, sean, whether the democrats were able to bringn new people who hadn't been in the poll-- you mean from chicago? >> there is all kines of talk about bus-loads of people. ...

Governors in u.s. history, walker is now the only one to survive. fox can also project that the lieutenant governor, republican rebecca kleefisch has survived her recall election. she has survived. what happened on this -- on the early call that it was too close to call, the exit polls, in fact, milwaukee mayor barrett was over performing in the exit polls and when the raw vote totals started coming in near walker across the state, it was clear that the projection was that walker was over performing in a number of different areas. so the raw vote total essentially sealed this up for our decisi...