The petition drive to recall and remove Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has surpassed all expectations, collecting more than 300,000 signatures in less than two weeks.
The truly remarkably thing about the total is not, however, that it is so large.
What’s truly remarkable is where the signatures are coming from: Rural and small-town Wisconsin communities are contributing disproportionately high numbers of signatures.
Burlington, a Racine County city that voted for Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and John McCain, has a booming recall movement. Indeed, while Barack Obama received 2,424 votes in Burlington in 2008 (compared with McCain’s 2,567), local recall activists had already collected 2,500 signatures in the first two weeks.
Thus, even in Republican-leaning areas, the recall is exceeding goals — and exceeding the 2008 performance of the most popular Democratic presidential nominee in decades. That earned a recent front-page headline in the Burlington Standard-Press newspaper: “Recall Effort Has a Visible Presence in Conservative Burlington.”
In Columbia County, where Walker won 52 percent of the vote last year, more than 10,033 voters have signed recall petitions — well over 45 percent of the total gubernatorial turnout of 2010.
In Pierce County, where Walker got 53 percent of the vote, more than 4,700 voters have signed — well over 25 percent of the 2010 gubernatorial turnout.
In Oneida County, where Walker took 55 percent of the vote, almost 3,700 voters have signed — well over 20 percent of the 2010 gubernatorial turnout.
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