Albert R. Hunt, Columnist

Scott Walker Tries to Snatch Football From Democrats One More Time

Wisconsin’s adaptable Republican governor has a way of making opponents feel like Charlie Brown.

October 21, 2018 at 12:00 PM UTC

Albert R. Hunt is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He was the executive editor of Bloomberg News, before which he was a reporter, bureau chief and executive Washington editor at the Wall Street Journal.

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Wisconsin Democrats are like the comic strip character Charlie Brown when he tries to kick that football: every time they think they're about to defeat Governor Scott Walker, victory is snatched away.

Walker, running for his third term in November, has been skillfully performing the Lucy trick since he was first elected in 2010, then in an ill-advised recall vote in 2012, and again when he was re-elected in 2014. There is no nimbler politician in America, or one always as ready to be flexible.