Wisconsin
Related: About this forumScott Walker was in Wisconsin for one day last week, but—he did not show his face publicly.
It is a fairly long article about his muck ups this summer.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/can-scott-walker-save-himself/404128/
Can Scott Walker Save Himself?
The Wisconsin governors presidential campaign is in free falla development that puzzles the state he has dominated.
Brian Snyder / Reuters
Molly Ball 6:17 AM ET
RACINE, Wis.Scott Walker was in Wisconsin for one day last week, butcuriously for a governor whos been criticized for being away from his home statehe did not show his face publicly.
I managed to catch a glimpse of him by parking outside an evening fundraiser in Racine, a lakefront community south of Milwaukee. There, I spied him for a few seconds, as he bolted from a big black Ford driven by a man in sunglasses through the doors of a bank building on Main Street, putting on his suit jacket as he walked. Campaign workers informed me that the sidewalk was private property and strongly discouraged me from approaching the donors who trickled in.
For the past four years, Walker has dominated Wisconsin. His bold agenda shattered the status quo, he shocked the left and united the right, and he couldnt be beat. Recalled in 2012, challenged in 2014, he kept on fighting and kept on winning.
But having spent much of the year as the solid Iowa frontrunner, Walker suddenly finds his presidential campaign in free fall. Nationally, hes dropped from first place in April to sixth today, barely ahead of Carly Fiorina. In Iowa, he has fallen to fourth, 20 points behind a surging Donald Trump. Graphs of Walkers poll trajectory over the last year look like a hat: an upsurge, a long peak, and a steady decline.
Its gut check time for sure, one prominent Republican who supports Walker told me.................
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)The place where our long national nightmare began. Actually, the original Republican Party, or the "Party of Lincoln" as the GOP likes to remind us, was nothing - and I mean NOTHING - like today's Republican Party.
postulater
(5,075 posts)But I suppose there are several birthplaces since it seems to be quite the tourist attraction.
Just like there are lots of AlQaeda #2s.