For all of the pomp and ceremony that Washington residents saw this week, the president’s inauguration may not have commemorated the most consequential election of 2012. In the longer view of history, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s decisive victory in his state’s union-led recall election may prove to be a bigger deal.

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