I'm just gonna say this is the 2012 election thread if that's cool with you
I'm disappointed that Walker won but I'm not surprised. I think (hope) it's far enough away from November to be replaced in voters minds before the general.
My congressional district has been bizarre. It's a solidly Republican district and has been held the last 10 years by Thad McCotter. As you'd expect, I'm not really a fan. So for this year, he went through the normal process of getting 1000 or whatever petition signatures to remain on the ballot in a district he'd win by a million points. They turned them into the Secretary of State and all but 240ish of the signatures are fraudelent - photocopies from other petitions, duplicates, fake names, etc. He immediately suspends his "campaign" (in quotes because it's not like he had much competition) and tells the SoS to remove his name from the ballot and he'll run as a writein. A week later he basically says that the damage has been done and he's not going to seek re-election, leaving our district wide open. As of right now there are two major party candidates on our ballot. The Republican is a reindeer farmer and a hardcore tea partier. The Democrat is a disciple of Lyndon LaRouche. The local Democratic party is trying to get a local doctor on the ballot but he's got a foreign name so I expect that to go over like a lead balloon. So instead of a pity vote for the Dems I'm probably going Green or Socialist if there's one on the ballot.
edit: I just checked and McCotter won reelection in 2010 by 20 points, AND THEN the districts were redrawn to make it even more favorable to him. He seriously just had to appear on the ballot and walk into his next term.