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ClydeR
03-03-2011, 10:47 AM
Bill O'Reilly explained (http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/transcript/still-no-winner-wisconsin) how the polls about Wisconsin are being misrepresented by the liberal media.


According to a new CBS poll, 37% of Americans favor cutting pay or benefits for public union employees, but 56% oppose that. And the New York Times headline today was: "Majority in Poll Back Employees in Public Sector." But the poll is misleading because 20% of the respondents say they are from union households. If you subtract them, those who favor cutting benefits win the poll. Wow, New York Times.

More... (http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/transcript/still-no-winner-wisconsin)

That's why the effort to recall Republican senators in Wisconsin will fail. Democrats in Wisconsin can't even read a poll.


Reporting from Washington — In the latest escalation of the state's battle over public employee union benefits, Wisconsin Democrats initiated an effort to recall Republican state senators who back Gov. Scott Walker's budget proposals.

"In 60 days you can take Wisconsin back by recalling the Republican senators who have decided to push Scott Walker's divisive attack on the rights of workers and his assault on schools, universities and local communities," state Democratic Party chairman Mike Tate says in a letter seeking funds for the recall campaign.

Wisconsin is one of only a handful of states that allows voters to unseat sitting lawmakers. Under state law, an elected official can be subjected to a recall campaign only if he or she has been in office for one year.

More... (http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-wisconsin-recall-20110303,0,330049.story)

They can't even try to recall Walker because he hasn't been in office for a year.