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" In a moment of weakness, I clicked onto the Wisconsin &amp;quot;winners and losers&amp;quot; wrap put together by Politico, which, by all available evidence, is now being put together in the pool house of one of the Romney residences. Most of it was fairly predictable \u2014 Scott Walker strong, unions weak, Democrats sad, Barack Obama a&amp;#039;scared, Mitt Romney smash (!), Paul Krugman dumb. It does take some first-class Romneybot 2.0 beat-sweetening to conclude that Wisconsin is &amp;quot;exponentially more in play&amp;quot; for November while clumsily eliding the extensive exit-poll data from last night that fairly screamed otherwise. Apparently, the Democrats are in trouble this fall, but Barack Obama isn&amp;#039;t. Oh. (I mean, honestly, it took three people to write this? Was one of them in charge of prepositions?) But you have to stick with the piece right to the end to get the real payoff.... Walker himself crushed it, fundraising-wise, spending $30 million to survive. But so did conservative groups such as the Koch-brothers backed Americans for Prosperity, American Majority Action, Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama, FreedomWorks and others who directed nearly $20 million to Walker&amp;#039;s cause. Conservatives are hardly alone. From the left, groups like the AFL-CIO, Democratic Governors Association, Human Rights Campaign, MoveOn.org and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund spent roughly $15.5 million. Yes, conservatives were &amp;quot;hardly alone&amp;quot; in what they spent in Wisconsin, in much the same way that a Kodiak bear is &amp;quot;hardly alone&amp;quot; if I stand next to it. Please shoot me now. (Photo Illustrations by DonkeyHotey for The Politics Blog [Walker] and via Flickr [Obama and Romney]) "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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