Union-endorsed Gov. Steve Beshear (D) is up two dozen points over state Senate President David Williams (R), his challenger in the gubernatorial race, which will be decided Nov. 8.

There are still a few hours left—polls close at 8 p.m. CDT— for Wisconsin voters to get to the polls in the recall elections of six of Gov. Scott Walker’s closest state Senate allies.

Phone bank volunteers are making last minute get-out-the-vote calls and knocking on voters’ doors. While the serious business of getting people to the polls has dominated today’s action, more than a hundred people held a sing-a-long and impromptu dance—“Roll Out the Recall” to the tune “Roll Out the Barrel” in the Capitol Rotunda in Madison this afternoon. Click here for the video.

There has been a steady stream of voters today in the Wisconsin recall elections, according to news reports. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports “strong turnout,” and in some precincts “as heavy as a presidential election.”

Turnout will be the determining factor today in the six Wisconsin state Senate districts where working family voters have the chance to recall the Walker 6—Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) closest state Senate allies who spearheaded his move to take away the collective bargaining rights of public employees and ram through a budget devastating to working families.

The 10,000 volunteers knocking on doors and making phone calls to get out Wisconsin voters for the Aug. 9 recall elections have now talked with more than a million potential voters.  Working familes initiated the recall of six Republican lawmakers who voted to kill collective bargaining for the state’s public employees.

This is a cross-post from the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO blog.

With last night’s victory for the people of Wisconsin under way, GOP legislators are getting nervous. They are so scared that they are proposing changes to legislative maps, which heavily favor Republicans over the people of Wisconsin.

New York’s Congressional District 26 had been safely in Republican hands for more than 40 years. Not anymore.

Political observers say Democratic Kathy Hochul won the seat in yesterday’s special election because she promised to fight the Republican plan to privatize Medicare and cut Social Security while her opponent marched in lockstep with the House-passed Republican budget.

Here’s a reminder: Tomorrow, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will deliver an address at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., outlining the tough questions the nation faces and reviewing the anti-worker actions in Wisconsin, Ohio and other states.

Not satisfied with attacking the collective bargaining rights of public employees, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) and Republican legislators have set their sights on voting rights with a so-called “Voter ID” bill that opponents call voter suppression.

It’s not unusual in any big election for a few ballots to go missing or not get counted. But when a county clerk suddenly announces the discovery of more than 14,000 votes from an entire city two days after an election decided by just 204 votes—with more than 10,000 going to the loser—that’s hard to fathom.