Wisconsin GOP Wins: Window On 2012 Elections?

A stand by Wisconsin Republicans against a massive effort to oust them from power could reverberate across the country as the battle over union rights and the conservative revolution heads toward the 2012 presidential race.

Democrats succeeded in taking two Wisconsin state Senate seats away from Republican incumbents on Tuesday but fell one short of what they needed to seize majority control of the chamber.

Republicans saw it as a big win for Gov. Scott Walker and a confirmation of his conservative agenda, the hallmark of which was a polarizing proposal taking away most collective bargaining rights from public workers.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/08/10/wisconsin-gops-stand-could-reverberate-elsewhere/#ixzz1UcLzkONr.

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