Did Walker “Survive”?

Did Walker “Survive”?
by David Harsanyi
06/06/2012

This morning, readers across the country were confronted with headlines that read, in some variation, Walker “survives” recall. The Boston Globe. The Washington Post. The New York Times. And so on. I suppose, though, that this is technically true — after all Walker won a recall challenge – but, implicit in the word “survive” is “close call.” One of the definitions of survive is, “To carry on despite hardships or trauma.”

So here’s something to remember:

The Wisconsin “survival” election:

Scott Walker – 53 percent

Tom Barrett – 46 percent

The 2008 audacious Barack Obama presidential election – AKA: “historic blowout victory,” ”a national catharsis,” “landslide,” etc…

Barack Obama – 53 percent

John McCain – 46 percent

A more appropriate headline would be Walker “cruises” to victory.
______________________________________________

To read another article by David Harsanyi, click here.
______________________________________________

MSNBC meltdown: news and analysis from around the bend
by John Hayward
06/06/2012

The news of Governor Scott Walker’s huge victory in Wisconsin was not take, or delivered, very well at MSNBC. No deliberate satire of an amateurish, biased network staffed by loons could be any funnier than the video below. Who needs “Anchorman 2” after this?

You’ve especially got to love the way they desperately cling to the ridiculously inaccurate exit polls, to squeeze out some good news for President Obama. They just received stunning, incontrovertible proof those polls were meaningless… but they decided to take that one part seriously, and try to convince their viewers a substantial segment of the Walker vote can’t wait to put Barack Obama back in the White House? That’s some hard-hitting, expert analysis!
_________________________________________________

To read more about this victory, click here.