results. 50% for scott walker. he s on the left of your screen. 50% for tom barrett, the democrat, the mayor of milwaukee. he s on the right. scott walker is the incumbent republican governor. this is a race to recall him, to remove him from office. based on the exit polls that we ve been conducting throughout the day. right now the exit polls show it s 50% for walker, 50% for barrett. doesn t get much closer than this. obviously we are in no prediction to make a projection of the winner in this race. also by the way for the lieutenant governor race, the lieutenant governor rebecca clayfish. she is also being there s a recall election for her. and mitchell, the democratic challenger. 50/50 in that race as well. based on the polls we re getting. john king is at the magic wall. john, it s suggested we re going to be working a long night tonight if it s as close as the exit polls suggest. let s take a deeper look at more exit poll questions. let s look deeper see if we can l
but not today. this one of the most telling exit poll questions, it turns out that regardless of which candidate voters backed, more people said paul would be an acceptable nominee than gingrich or santorum. as dylan and i discussed last week and you may recall, the political media has been shorting ron paul s campaign and that s a tough habit on break. now on to the second thing. this may disappoint some conservative king maybers what i m about to say. and liberal junkies may also not like it. but you can t ignore the numbers. mitt romney is killing it. but for months, we ve heard the republicans don t like him. they re searching for anybody but him. today some people even say that his victory wasn t convincing enough. the huffington post asked why did he only get 39% of the vote. let s look at the facts. last cycle, if you look at the new hampshire winners, mccain and clinton, they got 37 and 39%. john kerry who i worked for in 2004 got 38%. at 39%, mitt romney even had a