Wisconsin Recall Elections

     LINK - So after losing in their attempt to get an activist judge elected to shoot down Governor Scott Walker's union reform bill, the Democrats and unions have tried recall elections in Wisconsin. The Democrats won some more seats, but not enough to take away the majority from the Republicans in the state Senate, which is now held by a very thin Republican majority (one vote). The opinions on this seem to spin it both ways. On the one hand, some say that it shows the Democrats that even after Walker's bill, the sentiment in the state still leans Republican as opposed to Democrat, which has implications for 2012 (one of the claims was that after becoming a Red state, Wisconsin was being turned into a Blue state by the actions of Walker and the Republicans).
     On the other hand, some say that this will likely result in the state's GOP moving to a more centrist method of governance.