An analysis of the Wisconsin recall election: Labor, religion and policy

Published: Wednesday, June 6 2012 5:36 p.m. MDT

Thousands of pro-labor protesters rallied at the Wisconsin Capitol Saturday, March 12, 2011, in Madison, Wis.

Associated Press

Summary

A political scientist looks at the roll religion played in the Wisconsin recall election.

Christopher Chapp, a political scientist from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, looks at the Wisconsin recal election through an analysis of the stat's history on labor, religion and policy:

Governor Walker — a self-identified born-again Christian and the son of a Baptist minister — is no stranger to religious arguments in politics. Indeed, he sees a clear connection between the two, noting at his inaugural prayer breakfast, The great creator, no matter who you worship, is the one from which our freedoms are derived, not the government."

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Rifleman

Salt Lake City, Utah

Big labor has come to look at state governments as cash cows, and the reason so many states are in trouble is specifically because of the benefits public workers get while working and after retirement. The taxpayers in Wisconsin have put their foot More..

7:51 p.m. June 6, 2012
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My2Cents

Taylorsville, UT

The United States and the Republican party are grossly lying and deceiving all the public and the citizens in their falsehoods and deceptions of the truth. The economy has lost another battle to recovery.

Wisconsin is taking this as a More..

7:23 a.m. June 7, 2012
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