i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com wisconsin residents are voting right now on an extraordinary move to recall the governor scott walker and replace him with tom barrett. this election might be a sneak preview of the november press connection. the effort to get rid of walker was sparked by his move to get rid of collective bargaining rights for public employees. the state is split down the middle, the nasty battle against the tea party movement that has made vast amounts of money. dana bash reports. reporter: at a labor headquarters in madison, a frenzied final push to get out the vote. checking and re-checking lists, last-minute phone calls upon. the climax of a lengthy union effort of the republican governor scott walker. this is about mobilizing our people and the base and connecting with our voters. reporter: it s a similar scene in a walker war room. gop officials claim to have made 4 million calls and all of thi
how are you feeling besides wiped out there, richard? reporter: i think the next thing i ll be having is a prescription for some form of antibiotics. no, it s been amazing. look, the rain is still pouring, my suit is drenched. but we have seen over four days a carefully choreographed, constructed routine from the spectacle of the river to the ceremony of today, right through the way to the balcony at the end and the fly-past by the world war ii planes. if that isn t really showing with 1.5 million people standing outside your front doorstep, if that isn t showing an element of appreciation, i don t know what is, kyra. i m just curious, can you mix antibiotics with pims? reporter: the pims are over there. and i assure you there s plenty of them. i think what we have there were an enormous numbers of levels you could have taken over the last few days. at its most basic, a tourist attraction for people to come to london ahead of the olympics. go up a notch and you can ta
i want to bring in mark preston to talk about with what all of this means. i guess in a way mark, we knew that things were partisan. that s not surprising. but if you look at how pew researchers measure this, 48 different ways of measuring how we feel about politics over the years, and they find that we re more divided than ever. almost double over the past 25 years. why? you know suzanne, talk about a comprehensive study that pew has done now, you know, there s a lot of reasons. and what s interesting is that it shows that not only are we more divided politically but also seeing a growing middle. you know, a grow withing number of folks not aligning themselves entirely with the democratic party or the republican party. i think what you see is frustration out there right now on how to lead forward. i think you might be able to tie in the fact that social media has become so prevalent in helping organize people, you know, ten years ago we didn t have facebook or twitter or t