Wisconsin has voted, and the results are not good news for President Obama.
If Obama hopes for a surge of anger to swing vital Midwestern states back to him in the 2012 elections, Wisconsin made it clear that he has an uphill battle.
In Tuesday's recall election, Democrats worked hard to mobilize voters' anger -- against Gov. Scott Walker, against budget cuts, against joblessness, against the Tea Party -- to unseat six of Walker's Republican supporters in the state Senate. If they couldn't recall all six, they at least had high hopes of getting rid of three of the Republicans and replacing them with Democrats. This would have given the Democrats control of the Senate, enabling them to block Walker's "radical Republican" agenda, as they put it.
It didn't work. The Democrats won two seats which, considering the stakes, is a moral victory at best. Republicans held on to four seats and, hence, the Senate.
Wisconsin voters are angry, no question. But in the election's aftermath, it's not clear who they're angry at.