The Left and especially the Unions have gone "All In" on this recall. If they lose this will be a crippling event that they may not recover from.
The unions might just be neutered in future elections.
"might just be neutered?"
THAT, Thank God, is a DONE DEAL already. It happened when the union's hand-picked candidate, uber-Left Kathleen Falk, (who stupidly signed an agreement with the unions she'd hold state budgets hostage until a repeal of Act 10 was amended to it... which is borderline illegal "pay for play".) lost the Democratic primary to the lackadaisical Barrett, who's only really in the race for two reasons.
- The unions telling him to stay OUT, pissed him off mightily.
- Politically, he's on the rather lazy end of the spectrum, and sees it mainly as one more free toss for the Governor's mansion with others footing the bill.
All the election campaigning by the Left has been about red herrings, job numbers, and vague threats about education. And making political hay out of the John Doe investigation (that Walker asked for!) of a Walker aide found embezzling money from a veteran's charity, that ran amok and became a political witch hunt borne of lefty butthurtedness...
Barrett has already stated he won't push for a repeal of Act 10, or renewing collective bargaining or automatic union dues deductions for .gov workers. And no matter the outcome of the Governor's race, or the Senate recall elections today, the GOP still holds the Assembly, and even if the Senate does flip, the 2010 Census redistricting threatens to give the Assembly back to GOP control as soon as this November.
So the GOOD NEWS is that no matter what happens, save for fire and police (which have endorsed Walker) .gov unions in WI are kaput. And the corrupt cycle found in their ability to be given tax dollars by Democrats, then turn around and recycle that money as campaign donations, and time and effort for electioneering and organizing for those same Democrats is over.
That's not to say Walker losing or one or more of the four Republican State Senators losing wouldn't be a blow, and we could REALLY use the repudiation of the Democrats and Unions politically on the entire national scene, but as far as Wisconsin is concerned, we're already coasting in a "We may lose the battle, but we've already won the war." kind of scenario here.
No worries, the US DOJ is going to be monitoring the election 
AJ-did you read Eugene Kane's column today? He was concerned about the winning side gloating. I think I might send him an email and do just that tomorrow.
I don't pay the Urinal Sentinel a dime, even in the form of click/view ad impression revenue anymore. I guess I'll have to go look.
Oh, and as to Holder's goon squad, our somewhat milqtoast Republican AG is sending WI DOJ staff out to do poll watching too. So there's some balance, perhaps... although I have to wonder if it's like the various Federal bureaucracies, where the titular head changes with the administration, but the trenches are a bunch of solidly leftists wedged into their sinecures.
ETA.. I'm hearing some anecdotal reports from sympathetic folks in occupied territory of northern Illinois school bus company lots being EMPTY during the middle of the day, when there's no school pick-ups or drop-offs happening.
