"There's class war in Wisconsin, yet the Democrats sing Kumbaya"

"Bill Clinton with Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett at a rally for Barrett, who is trying to unseat Governor Scott Walker in Milwaukee. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty."

Gary Younge (GuardianUK):

There is a degree of hyperbole one comes to expect from American activists around election time. Given the level of polarisation, this is hardly surprising. Every vote, you're told, is about liberty, justice, the American dream, the constitution or the world one wants to leave your children or grandchildren. Then, often, half the eligible voters stay at home and, regardless of who wins, not an awful lot changes.
So when activists on both sides of the effort to recall Wisconsin's governor insist "everything" is at stake, they should not be taken too literally. Nonetheless, this time they have a point. MORE...