Real Democratic recall candidates cruise to victory over fakes

Voters not impressed with GOP, costs of primaries, false Robo-calls and Voter ID requests at polls
Update: See also The Atlantic's Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Wisconsin Recall Elections.

By Jessica Vanegeren at the Capital Times

None of the six placeholder or "fake" Democratic Senate candidates pulled off an upset victory during the first round of a historic recall election season in Wisconsin Tuesday. ...

Republicans took blistering criticism for their decision to put forward the fake candidates and force primary elections.

From Uppity Wisconsin - The Wisconsin Voter ID Law, which might also be called the Help Republicans Win Elections Act, hasn't even taken full effect yet but is already causing grief at the polls. Mischievous Republicans ostensibly enacted Voter ID to curb virtually non-existent voter fraud, using another of those GOP-designed "tools," designed to suppress the votes of people likely to vote for the other guys.

McClatchy News: Healthcare Opposition Contrived

Update: Gov. Dean predicts healthcare legislation with public option signed in September.

Margaret Talev sets the record straight in Who's behind the attacks on a health care overhaul?

Writes Talev in McClatchy Newspapers:

Much of the money and strategy behind the so-called grassroots groups organizing opposition to the Democrats' health care plans comes from conservative political consultants, professional organizers and millionaires, some of whom hold financial stakes in the outcome.

Weeds

And not pot.

The online Salon magazine is publishing the most insightful work on these seemingly crazed protesters upset that health care reform might work.

This is not the work of a grassroots uprising; it's AstroTurf and corporate weeds.

See also Adele Stan at Alternet.