(RecallFitz.com)
We know that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is facing a spirited recall petition drive. In fact, it's gone so well that Walker is
already running ads defending himself.
But he's not the only Republican in the crosshairs. The summer recalls whittled down GOP majorities in the Senate to a single member. Thus, Democrats have to flip just a single seat to retake the chamber -- a very real possibility given their potential targets. Indeed, while only one summer recall was waged in a Democratic-leaning district, three of the four races below are in friendly territory.
Below is the latest info from the various recall petition gathering efforts. You can get presidential results by district here.
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R)
Recall organizers need to gather 16,750 signatures, but are aiming at 18,000 to have a cushion. Yesterday, they announced they were halfway there at the halfway mark of the effort -- 9,200 signatures collected.
This seat leans red, but not crazy so. President Barack Obama got 47.8 percent of the vote in 2008, though Fitzgerald won it with 68 percent of the vote in 2010.
State Sen. Van Wanggaard (R)
Van Wanggaard won this seat with just 52.52 percent of the vote in GOP-friendly 2010, in a district that Obama carried with over 55 percent of the vote. There haven't been any updates on the number of signatures gathered in this district.
State Sen. Terry Moulton (R)
Moulton won this seat with 54 percent of the vote in 2010, yet this is a 55 percent Obama district. Democrats appear to be having little trouble collecting the necessary signatures. The last public tally of the effort was two weeks ago:
[Eau Claire County Democratic Party Chair Kirsten] Dexter said Monday that 8,900 signatures have been collected in the effort to recall Moulton.
Dexter said that amounts to 59 percent of the signatures needed in less than two weeks since the effort was launched. As with Gov. Walker, recall supporters have until Jan. 17 to force a recall [...]
State Sen. Pam Galloway (R)
Galloway narrowly won this seat with 52 percent of the vote in 2010, in this 53.4 percent Obama district. There are no public updates on the progress of the recall petitions.
State Sen. Dale Schultz (R)
On paper, Schultz would be the most endangered Republican in the Wisconsin Senate. Obama carried the district with 60.5 percent of the vote in 2008. Yet he is not being targeted for recall. Why? He was the lone Republican to vote against Gov. Walker's efforts to eliminate collective bargaining for public employee unions.
State Sen. Bob Jauch (D)
Republican efforts to fight fire with fire over the summer backfired disastrously, as their own attempts to recall Democrats failed either at the petition-gathering level, or at the ballot box. They similarly face very little fertile ground this round, and had mostly sat things out until a few days ago, when they announced that they were "exploring" a recall of Jauch.
Given that Obama won this district with nearly 59 percent of the vote, the odds for GOP success are poor.