Wisconsin residents on Tuesday voted in favor of keeping GOP Gov. Scott Walker in a recall election organized after he eliminated collectively bargain agreements for most state employees to cut a multi-billion dollar budget shortfall.

Fox News called the race shortly before 10 p.m. Eastern Time.

Walker in surviving the recall election, beat back a challenge by Democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.

The recall effort started about 18 months after the first-term governor eliminated collectively bargain agreements for most state employees, in an effort to cut Wisconsin's multi-billion dollar budget shortfall.

Democrats and unions argued that Walker had gone too far, then helped organize massive statehouse protests and gather 900,000 signatures for the recall vote. The effort began shortly after the state legislature agreed last year to Walker’s proposal, which also requires most public state workers to pay more for health insurance and pension benefits.

Roughly $63 million was spent on the race, with much of Walker’s money coming from outside of the state.

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This is going to spell trouble for Obama! I remember the scene they tried to make delivering the recall papers in a U-Haul truck talking their spack and dancing around and celebrating.

Obama's got to go! Bye, bye!

This is a good indicator he's done!

Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker survived his recall election Tuesday, capping months of acrimony in the state that began when the first-term governor and Republicans in the state Legislature rolled back what they considered excesses in the collective bargaining agreements of public-employee unions.

The Republicans argued the move was a necessary part of their efforts to cut Wisconsin’s estimated $3.6 billion budget shortfall. Democrats and union leaders accused them of overreaching.

On Tuesday, an overwhelming majority of Wisconsin voters concluded that the complaints against Walker were not enough reason to oust him midterm.

Walker was leading Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett 58 percent to 41 percent with 65 percent of the 3,424 precincts reporting, according to the Associated Press.

Wisconsin went for President Obama in 2008, but the recall results give Republicans hope that their presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, can win there in November.

The outcome Tuesday is also a blow to the labor movement, which poured considerable resources into the failed effort to ouste Walker.

Of the three recall elections of governors in U.S. history, only Walker has survived.

Walker’s lieutenant governor, Rebecca Kleefisch, also was projected to survive her recall election.

The recall effort started about a year and a half ago, after the legislature passed Walker’s proposal to curb public employee union power, while also requiring most public state workers to pay more for health insurance and pension benefits.

Democrats and unions argued the governor had gone too far, and they helped organize massive statehouse protests and gather 900,000 signatures for the recall vote.

Roughly $63 million was spent on the race, with much of Walker’s support coming from outside of the state.

The Republican Governors Association spent $1.5 million in a last-minute, get-out-the-vote effort. However, most voters seemed to have decided long before Election Day.

Democratic groups -- including those funded by unions, the Democratic Governors Association and the Democratic National Committee -- poured in about $14 million, based on a tally from the government watchdog group the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. Barrett's $4.2 million in donations were mostly from inside Wisconsin.

The race attracted some big names on both sides. Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie appeared on behalf of Walker, while former President Bill Clinton came out for Barrett in the race's final days.

The impact of the vote is expected to carry into the November elections.

“I congratulate Scott Walker on his victory in Wisconsin,” Romney said. “Governor Walker has demonstrated over the past year what sound fiscal policies can do to turn an economy around, and I believe that in November voters across the country will demonstrate that they want the same in Washington.”

Though Romney visited the state with Wisconsin GOP Rep. Paul Ryan earlier this year, President Obama did not travel to Wisconsin to campaign for Barrett, though he tweeted his support Monday night.

Since taking office, Walker has reduced the state budget and seen a drop in the state's unemployment rate.

Walker, the 44-year-old son of a minister, remained unflappable throughout the campaign, as he was during the massive protests that raged at the Statehouse for weeks as lawmakers debated his proposal.

Along the way, he has become the most successful fundraiser in Wisconsin politics, collecting at least $31 million from around the country since taking office.

Walker wasn’t the only politician up for recall Tuesday. In addition to Kleefisch, three Republican state senators also face recall votes. A fourth state Senate seat will be determined after the Republican incumbent resigned rather than face the recall.

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He won by a WIDE margin also!

The governor may have survived, but the government he presides over will not.

Good News!

Should Tee off the Unions,since now they don't have an automatic Milk-Cow in the Workers!
Gone are the days when the Union can extort Money from every worker,through Automatic Dues taken out of the Wages!
Glad that Thievery has come to an end!

There is already threats coming it against the Governors life. It's what the Liberals and the Unions do when they don't get their way. They use violence or the threat of violence. It's sad really.

Hitler outlawed Trade Unions in 1933 so he could control the people.

Here we go, trying to compare Republicans to the Nazis.

He's not outlawing unions! Get your facts straight.
He limited collective barganing. And made them pay a portion of their pention and medical which is less than any private sector union. Seems to be FAIR AND EQUAL like Obama says he wants.

By then German Trade Unions had ruined the German economy.

I believe he also ended the Unions being able to charge dues to people who didn't want to be a part of it too.

April 21, 1933 document detailing the extensive plans for occupying the union halls and destroying their organizations on May 2. This document was entered into evidence at the Nuremberg trials, and shows that the planning for the May 2 destruction of the unions had begun weeks in advance. The Goebbels diary entry and the April 21 document make it unlikely that Hitler would have made a statement on the second about the need to destroy unions. Everyone in his inner circle already knew that was going to happen.

On May 2 the trade-union headquarters throughout the country were occupied, union funds confiscated, the unions dissolved and the leaders arrested. Many were beaten and lodged in concentration camps.

Hitler publicly promised at the time that all workers' rights would be respected, but:

Within three weeks the hollowness of another Nazi promise was exposed when Hitler decreed a law bringing an end to Collective Bargaining and providing that henceforth ”labor trustees,” appointed by him, would ”regulate labor contracts” and maintain ”labor peace.”

Since the decisions of the trustees were to be legally binding, the law, in effect, outlawed strikes. Ley promised ”to restore absolute leadership to the natural leader of a factory – that is, the employer . . . Only the employer can decide. Many employers have for years had to call for the ’master in the house.’ Now they are once again to be the ’master in the house’ ”

Here we go with the Republican racist comments..............