Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker pulled ahead of his Democratic challenger in the recall election scheduled for June 5, according to the Marquette Law School poll last week. It showed Walker beating the Democratic candidate, Mayor Tom Barrett of Milwaukee, by 7 points.
Democrats maintain that their private polling shows the race to be adead heat and expect Bill Clinton appearance in Milwaukee last Friday to have rallied the troops.
The entire recall saga has been a true circus with sit-ins and demonstrations in the state capitol and Democratic state senators fleeing the state and hiding out at the now infamous Clock Tower Resort in Rockford, Illinois. Evading their constitutional responsibilities, they aimed to deny their chamber a quorum and block a vote on Walker's public labor union reforms.
Mayor Barrett won a contested primary beating organized labor's candidate in a hotly contested race. This is his second try at defeating Governor Walker, to whom he previously lost two years ago.
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