He made history on Tuesday night, Scott Walker was the third governor in American history to face a recall election.He is the first one to win it.
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Wisconsin's Republican governor still has a job
Wednesday morning after beating his Democratic challenger, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, 53-to-46 percent. Tuesday's vote was closely watched all around the country.
"Tonight, we tell Wisconsin, we tell our country, and we tell people all across the globe that voters really do want leaders who stand up and make the tough decisions," Walker said.
For Democrats, the loss was crushing -- though not entirely unexpected. Barrett was badly outspent by Walker, and has now lost two gubernatorial elections to him.
Walker's decision to limit the bargaining power of public employee unions kicked off lengthy protests last year that turned into a movement to show him the door.
Democrats nationally had hoped for a resounding rejection of Walker and his philosophy.
And they worry now that other Republican governors will be emboldened to follow his lead.
Just because democrats didn’t win in this election, it do not mean that democrat can’t win back Wisconsin. We have to also take into consideration that this was a non-general election and many voters did not turn out for the elections.
