Schmidt Wrote: The polls have just closed in Wisconsin, and we'll be awaiting the results in the next few hours.  It has been inspiring to see the energy in Wisconsin for voting...both by Democrats and Republicans.  We are getting a lesson in what our democracy should be about...the people expressing their choices at the polls.

Too often this is not the case.  Many Americans are fickle...it depends on the election.  In 2008 Republicans were more fickle than Democrats and lost. In 2010 Democrats were more fickle than Republicans, particularly the young voters staying home in large numbers on election day, and we lost the House, thereby ensuring that we would have the disfunctional Congress that we have witnessed since the freshman Tea Partiers were sworn in this year.

The results of the Wisconsin election will not change policy in Wisconsin in the short term.  Repubilcans still hold the Governorship and the Assembly and nothing in this recall election will change that.  But a Democratic victory will send a storng message to America that the middle class is alive and well...and that the unions and not the Koch funded Tea Party speaks for American workers

If the Scott Walker's Republicans prevail, it will be another incremental step towards that future corporate state of oligarchs and serfs...or what Chris Hedges has descibed as inverted totalitarianism...where big money, lies and fear can still buy elections.

Go Wisconsin!!!