Where we are with the Wisconsin recalls

Now that we have the Kloppenburg challenge gauntlet thrown (good for you, Ms. Kloppenburg), let's take stock of where the Wisconsin Recall effort sits.

As I understand it, eight GOP senators are eligible to be recalled; all eight are being challenged via petition drives; and only three overturns are needed to potentially re-blue the Wisconsin Senate with Democrats in the majority. Petitions have been turned in for four (CORRECTION: five) of the eight senators.

The Republicans are playing Mirror-Mirror by pushing to recall some Dems, but as you'll see in the Maddow Show clip below, that's not likely to go well. Rachel has done two segments on this, one on Wednesday and the follow-up on Thursday. Click the link to see the Wednesday clip. This is the follow-up; enjoy.



It's worth pausing on that chart about 0:25 into the clip, the one that overlays the map of how much bluer the districts have become since the last election, with the map of who is being recalled in those districts. Looks promising.

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