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Despite the outpouring of anger at Scott Walker, on an electoral level the governor’s opponents have struggled to channel the enthusiasm that garnered more than 1 million recall signatures into a successful campaign. As a result, the campaign to recall Walker is sputtering, and the governor has pulled ahead in the polls with a little over two weeks to go until the June 5 election.
Scott Walker’s recall fight is among the most hyped races of 2012, a national flashpoint that is partly a referendum on Walker’s stance on public unions, and partly a test of enthusiasm for November. But his campaign has zero interest in political pageantry. It doesn’t hold massive rallies. The location of its headquarters hasn’t even been made public. For the most controversial governor in the country, the numbers are all that matter.
Keith Judd, a.k.a. Inmate #11593-051 at the federal correctional facility in Beaumont, Tex., is a modern Renaissance man: a Rastafarian-Christian, a former member of something called the “Federation of Super Heroes,” a musician and NRA member who has bowled a “sanctioned” perfect game. His favorite book is Stephen King’s The Stand. His favorite President is [...]
When Democrats began the push to oust Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker last year, his controversial law curbing the collective-bargaining rights of most public employees headlined their list of grievances. But while June 5′s landmark recall election began as a fight over the fate of unions, it has since become a battle over unemployment, past promises and [...]
The battle of Wisconsin was never going to be cheap. Scott Walker, the Republican governor facing a landmark recall election next month, is perhaps the most polarizing politician in the country not named Obama. The June 5 election in a bitterly divided swing state is seen by both sides as a bellwether in the ongoing [...]
With the Republican primary over and a long campaign ahead, the political class has found a new pastime: speculation about whom Mitt Romney will choose as his running mate. This exercise has the benefit of involving a wide range of interesting characters, sized up as though they were racehorses at the gate, and allows anyone [...]
A Swampland competition to plot a profitable post-campaign future for the former Speaker.
Talk about swing states all you want, but today’s Dow drop stems from renewed financial trouble in Spain, which has the clammy grey hand of a catastrophic Eurozone crisis on the stock market’s shoulder again. (That, despite a modestly good indicator about domestic job growth.) Our brilliant Rana Foroohar suggests that a European disaster, if [...]
These are dull days for political junkies. At minimum, Mitt Romney is more than a month away from wrapping up the Republican nomination, but the drama of the GOP primary has evaporated. Pundits and observers need to chew on some morsel of intrigue as Romney works to jettison the “presumptive” tag. And so the veepstakes chatter [...]
A gallery of winners (and losers) from the vice presidential vetting process through the years.
