able to touch. i m leaving from the studio here to go out and launch yet another group of canvassers that will hit maybe the fifth or sixth time these targeted wards. o we re cautiously optimistic. i just want to jump in because i want to say as you re optimistic, a lot of people on the right have been critical about the president not stepping a foot in wisconsin during this recall process and i want to you respond about how the governor talks about that. it is a surprise. i don t know what it says, but i think it s interesting. two years ago, the president came in, he s not here now. on friday, he made three stops in the twin cities and three stops in chicago, so it s kind of hard to argue you weren t nearby. do you think that it s a glaring and deafening silence from the president not coming to
opponent or they tell me they are democrats, but in each case they are voting for me now either because they like the person who takes on the tough problems or some of them tell me they don t like the recall process. i think the president and his folks just want to shy away from that. reporter: it is a tough position for the president to be in. oddly enough in this state, the president enjoys very high approval ratings, north of 55%, the approval ratings that scott walker enjoys. the president probably felt it would do him more harm than good to get in the middle of this. very few undecideds here. it s about each side getting out its respective votes. a lot of groups supporting governor wal walker are trying hard. the unions are trying hard. tomorrow night he will be safely in that office without a threat of being thrown out. bill: that is interesting on the approval ratings. thank you.
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other apart like a lot of the people in the party feared. i think the turnout in the primary was more significant for what it said about the republicans than what it said about the democrats. in what way? what is it saying about the republicans. what it says is republicans are motivated. they are angry. they are angry at the recall process. scott walker i think his single greatest political asset is this very he intense base of support he has and he will be hard to beat not because it is 50/ not because he is up by two or three points in the polls it really isn t. it really is 50/50 because his supporters are remotivated and he can rely on them to turn out. the mayor of milwaukee running against governor walker in the june 5 recall. they ran against each other in the general election for governor, right? they did. a different year. a huge republican wave election and there was about a six point margin in that race.
people in the party feared. i think the turnout in the primary was more significant for what it said about the republicans than what it said about the democrats. in what way? what is it saying about the republicans. what it says is republicans are motivated. they are angry. they are angry at the recall process. scott walker i think his single greatest political asset is this very he intense base of support he has and he will be hard to beat not because it is 50/ not because he is up by two or three points in the polls it really isn t. it really is 50/50 because his supporters are remotivated and he can rely on them to turn out. the mayor of milwaukee running against governor walker in the june 5 recall. they ran against each other in the general election for governor, right? they did. a different year. a huge republican wave election and there was about a six point margin in that race.