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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (168619)	8/10/2011 10:55:01 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 544217

the country and Wisc won. Wisc has already saved 10s of millions because of walkers action.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (168619)	8/10/2011 11:02:28 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 544217

MSNBC Delivers Shameful Pep Rally Election Coverage MSNBC didn't even pretend to be objective last night with their coverage of the Big Labor financed recall effort against six Republican State Senators in Wisconsin. Instead of the standard, sober, in-studio reporting one would expect from a news gency reporting on the results of an election, MSNBC staged what can only be described as an outdoor pep rally complete with screaming crowds holding eerily fascist-inspired signs (red with raised, clenched fist, really?). MSNBC provided sweeping camera shots of the crowd cheering as Ed Schultz read the returns as if he were updating the score of a football game. Then as the evening's mood turned sour and it became clear that the Republicans would retain control of the Senate, Schultz instigated the crowd with unfounded speculations of vote tampering and "shenanigans". Is this what we should expect from NBC News on election night 2012? breitbart.tv

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (168619)	8/10/2011 11:47:38 AM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 544217

I won't try to put a pretty face on it. I've heard figures of $40 million on the recall campaign, and it'll probably be a lot higher in the end, it's hard to track all the outside money. On 6 or 9 state legislature seat in a rinky-dink state. The SCOTUS has opened the gates to unlimited money pouring in from everywhere. And with the GOP forcing through voter ID and gerrymandering aka redistricting in many states, it's going to get harder and harder. Kvetching here doesn't help either, but I don't know what does at this point.