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
because of governor scott walker and his moves to restrict collective bargaining. mike tobin has a one-on-one in the recall race. who is she, mike? she hold as few titles mother, cancer survivor. she has the first title of first lieutenant governor ever to be recalled. she knows it is not about her. because she supported governor scott walker and policies that took the union clout. they are using the recall function of our state constitution as a weapon, a weapon to seek revenge, political when a big money interest doesn t get what they want they learned they can use the recall to exact revenge. reporter: the way the law is written, governor and lieutenant governor are
so folks cast one ballot for us in the general election, even though they cast separate ballots for us in the primary. but the funny thing is, we are being recalled separately. when they changed our constitution so that we were elected like that in 1970, they never went back into the recall function of our constitution and changed that. so even though we are elected together, we are being recalled, potentially nseparate questions. potentially on separate ballots and even different days. greta: you are the first lieutenant governor in history to be recalled. i am the first lieutenant governor in national history to be facing recall. i am the first to be elected twice in my own first term. how s that? greta: i like that. that s interesting. all right. now, i want to talk about they recall petition, we did a story here last time. it was quite stunning. it had just been revealed,
a ticket in the general. so folks cast one ballot for us in the general election. even though they cast separate ballots for us in the primary. the funny thing is we are being recalled separately. when they changed the constitution when we elected by that in the first place, they never went to the recall function of the constitution a changed that. even though we are elected together, we re recalled potentially in separate questions, potentially on separate ballots on different days. greta: you are the first lieutenant governor in history to be recalled? i am the first lieutenant governor in national history to face a recall. i m not going to say something you necessarily want but interesting historically. i ll be the first lieutenant governor to be elected twice in my first term. somehow that? greta: that is good. i want to call the recall petition. this was stunning, it had just
senate. the lieutenant governor says wisconsin democrats are using state recall statutes to play politics. this is becoming almost a spectacle. and i don t think that the writers of the original recall statute, the founding father when they wrote the constitution intended for the use of the recall function in this way. it will cost state taxpayers $9 million at a minimum. democratic state senator a possible channeler to walker said the recall is worth the cost, because so many dissatisfied wisconsin voters sign petition. understanding that the threshold is high to recall an elected official in wisconsin, then if that threshold is met, absolutely, whatever the cost is going to be is what it will be. despite the anticipation, some signature on petition will be invalidated, oh one expects the democrats to fail to meet the threshold the second time around. whether you call it a test, training wheels or whatever,