Reckoning Day in Wisconsin

The political up-roar is about to land it's most important blow. In all of the kafuffle over Republican Governor Scott Walker's assault on the middle class workers of Wisconsin and the ensuing protests by teachers, police and fire fighters among others the recall became the weapon of change.

In this battle and counter battle there are 3 phases.

One, a Democratic senator was petitioned for recall and faced re-election on July 19. He won re-election, round 1 to the Dems.

Two, Tomorrow is round 2 when 6 Republican Senators face the recall re-election. If 3 of them loose, the senate flips to the Democrats, if 5 or more of them win it's a done deal and the focus turns toward the recall of the governor himself.

Three, round three which happens next Tuesday features the recall election of two more Democratic Senators, both of whom handily survived a faux primary challenge drummed up by the Republicans back in June.

End game: The magic number is 3. When the dust settles, there needs to be 3 more Democrats in the Senate of Wisconsin.

KEY: the blue are the Democratic held senate districts, the green are held by Republicans, and the purple are those that are being challenged.