GOP voter enthusiasm dominates Wisconsin recall

In other words, Democrats' attempts to remove the state's democratically elected governor are failing. Miserably.

Dave Weigel over at Slate breaks it down:

Public Policy Polling's survey of Wisconsin suggests that Scott Walker is winning his recall election. Not really a surprise right now. But what about that presidential number? It's got Obama up only one point on Mitt Romney, closer to the 2004 Kerry-Bush squeaker than the 2008 landslide Obama won in the state.

Should it worry Obama? Possibly. Should it worry the recall campaign Democrats? Oh, yes. Look at the internals. PPP's sample found that 28 percent of likely voters were Democrats, and 35 percent were Republicans. In 2008, 39 percent of voters were Democrats and only 33 percent were Republicans. That's a 13-point swing. In PPP's poll, 17 percent of voters call themselves liberals and 41 percent call themselves conservatives. In 2008, the exit poll numbers were 23 percent and 31 percent -- an 8-point conservative lead, not a 24-point lead.

Couple that with the latest poll from Marquette Law (via Ace), Gov. Scott Walker is looking like a winner at this point with a 5-point lead over his Democrat challenger.  When registered voters were asked if they were certain about showing up on election day, 83% of Democrats said yes while a whopping 91% of Republicans said yes.  As Ace notes, "we could be looking at presidential election-level turnout amongst Republicans" in the Wisconsin recall election.