What seemed a few months ago like an unstoppable crusade to oust Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker now has the look of a marathon runner pulling up limp in the last mile.
Two weeks from Election Day, Democrats face the real prospect of defeat: The last three public polls of the race show the first-term Republican up between 4 and 9 points. Local Democrats are seething that the national party has been MIA from their recall effort. The state’s largest newspaper argued over the weekend that whatever Walker’s sins, he doesn’t deserve to be booted from office.
And with fewer than 5 percent of voters undecided, the chance of a significant shift in sentiment in the closing days appears slight, even as the campaigns prepare to launch their final advertising spree.
“We’re cautiously optimistic,” said Phil Cox, executive director of the Republican Governors Association, which has spent more than $6 million on ads castigating Walker’s Democratic opponent, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. “I don’t think the other side is going to be able to introduce new information about the governor. His image is relatively set at this point. Do I think things are incrementally moving in the right direction? Yes.”
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