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NBC News, Fox News, and CNN have now all officially projected a win in WIsconsin for incumbent Republican Governor Scott Walker. The exit polling from just hours ago suggested an extremely tight race, deadlocked at 50/50, and seemed to point to a protracted night of parsing election returns, but at least for the governor’s office (there are still three GOP state senators facing recall) it appears to be a win for the GOP. Whether this has broader implications nationally is yet unclear — Walker’s recall was incited by his push to strip union rights from public sector employees, and his GOP comrades could view this as a mandate for further state level union-busting, or could see it as a cautionary tale of how close the wunderkind governor came to falling. Suffice to say the win didn’t come cheaply — the Walker campaign outspent the Barrett campaign by a nearly 8-to-1 margin. (Photo by WisPolitics)

“The exit polling from just hours ago suggested an extremely tight race, deadlocked at 50/50”

So you know

CNN and MSNBC can stop calling it now with only 25% reporting.

Even if Walker wins (gahhhh knock on wood), we sent a pretty clear message: you can outspend us 8-1 but not get eight times the votes. OK, technically the Koch brothers will have bought this election, but they can’t buy EVERY election… right?

I’m hoping Democrats take this as a wakeup call for campaign finance reform. People like the Koch brothers aren’t going to put big bucks behind them. Sad that it has to be this way, but campaign finance is such a mess right now, we really need something big to happen to make a dent.

(via randomactsofchaos)