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" MILWAUKEE \u2014 Our Savior Lutheran is a perfectly adequate church strangely overwhelmed by the giant golden dome of the Tripoli Shrine Temple next door. (The Tripoli Shrine has loomed over this stretch of Wisconsin Avenue since 1928, giving the neighborhood the general aspect of a place where a Rudolph Valentino movie might break out at any moment.) In the basement this morning, people from around the neighborhood came in slowly, in groups of two or three, to vote.  Already, though it wasn&amp;#039;t midday, the streets were full of all sorts of rumors about various shenanigans. The Republicans, people around the church were saying, were robo-calling Democrats and telling them that, if they&amp;#039;d signed the recall petitions, they&amp;#039;d already voted and, therefore, didn&amp;#039;t have to show up today. Eventually, this got around to the point where the local right-wing radio jocks were forced to begin ridiculing it, even though the reports were coming in from all over the state. (I&amp;#039;d first heard about it at Scott Walker&amp;#039;s rally at the Serb Hall here on Monday night.) Outside, Thaddeus Stewart was sitting on a picnic table, smoking. He flipped away his butt and, at almost the same moment, a man who&amp;#039;d just voted walked by and said, &amp;quot;Hey, brother, can I have that?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Sorry,&amp;quot; Thaddeus told him. The man left the butt there on the ground and walked away. Stewart is a Vietnam-era Army veteran \u2014 his older brother, he said, &amp;quot;got the real Vietnam&amp;quot; \u2014 and now he lives in Veterans Manor about four blocks west on the Avenue, a facility that opened in 2011 with, ironically, both Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Governor Scott Walker on-hand to cut the ribbon. &amp;quot;Basically,&amp;quot; he said, &amp;quot;I was the be-all-you-can-be, get-that-money-for-college Army.&amp;quot; Usually, Stewart is working the polling place in the basement here, which covers Ward 198 on the city&amp;#039;s near borth side. But he took today off, and settled for sitting on the table, giving directions to the people confused about where the door to the polling place was. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not working this one,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;To be honest with you, I don&amp;#039;t like neither one. The recall part, I mean, shit, I heard a lot of bad things. When it came down to it, when he came at middle-class America, he pissed a lot of people off. Then again, I was a Republican until Obama come into office. Hell, Lincoln freed the slaves, and he was a Republican. You actually study history, you&amp;#039;d be surprised how things have gone in this country. Until now, when the lines got all blurry and everything. &amp;quot;I was born and raised in Chicago and that was a whole different machine. Everything was easy, cut and sliced and diced, and you know where to go to get what you wanted. Here? It&amp;#039;s a kind of hodgepodge. Politically, I don&amp;#039;t know. People seem like they don&amp;#039;t know where to turn any more.&amp;quot; It was 10:30 in the morning, and 250 people had voted. CLICK HERE FOR MORE CONTINUING COVERAGE, LIVE FROM THE RECALL IN WISCONSIN: \u2022 Scenes from a Recall Poll, Pt. 3: Waukesha City Hall \u2022 Scenes from a Recall Poll, Pt. 2: 5225 W. Vliet Street \u2022 Beyond the Money, the Recall Election Has Been the Fight Our Democracy Deserves \u2022 The Elephant in Scott Walker&amp;#039;s Courtroom: An Investigation, a Rise to Power, a Crazy Case \u2022 Recall Voices Will Be Heard, but Wisconsin Still Has to Get Out There and Vote \u2022 A Movement Becomes a Campaign, and Nobody&amp;#039;s Sure How to Be Blind-Sided \u2022 EARLIER: In Wisconsin, a Recall Effort Belies a Progressive Comeback "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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