I think I am in love. Mr. Walker adds: “Not just here in Wisconsin, I think any number of us as governors can offer something to point to—‘Hey, this isn’t just talk, this isn’t just theory, look what we did to transform our states.’ Focus on the R, for Reformer, not just for Republican.” Mr. Walker says he “pleaded” with the campaign to use Wisconsin as an example of how economies can improve with the right policies, instead of “coming into states like mine and telling voters how awful it was” and placing the “blame on President Obama, when I just spent $37 million in the recall election telling people how much better things were.” [Walker has] a pragmatic agenda to lower the cost of doing business, reduce the tax burden and promote “learn more to earn more” skill training. Mr. Walker pushed through both corporate and individual tax cuts last year, amounting to about $1.9 billion. Republicans are often instructed that tax cutting, especially the rates on marginal income, is tapped out as a political issue, and that the GOP must find other methods to appeal to the middle class. “Boy, I don’t buy that at all,” Mr. Walker says. “Like the Midwest I come from, we respect quality in government, but we want a good deal for it.” “I think we can make inroads against that old, tired, worn-out, top-down, government-knows-best approach, because people in these battleground states want to be inspired,” he says. He points to an exit poll showing that 18- to 24-year-olds broke for Ms. Burke only 49% to 48%, which he attributes in part to his tuition freeze for the University of Wisconsin campuses. online.wsj/articles/joseph-rago-how-scott-walker-keeps-winning-1415405344
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