"... Walker's biggest impact on 2016 may have to do with where his deep-pocketed former backers turn next." Walker himself is of no great loss.

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COMMENTS:
*  The only affect this will have on 2016 in my view Is that their will be one less piece of scum infesting the Republican Presidential field.
*  The southern racist conservatives will never turn out for a fake conservative carpet-bagger like Trump. Hillary will end up with even more electoral votes than Obama did, because women will turn out in droves to vote for the first female president. Oh...and there will NEVER be another repub president.
*  With Walker, people have simply caught on to his bullshit (this refers to those that at anytime have supported him). His financial backing can only take him so far... As mentioned, even those in Wisconsin that were "blinded by the light", so to speak, have glimpsed the ugliness that is Scott Walker puppeteer. Nothing he offers is in the interest of anyone in Wisconsin. The only thing is, have the people of Wisconsin come to their senses in time?
*  Why should anyone listen to candidates who are polling at 0%? We've all heard what the disgusting pervert Santorum has to say. Graham wants all war all the time. Jindal is a demented nutcase. Pataki is a nobody.  Christie is going nowhere, except possibly prison. Paul is a man with a message who can't help making everyone around him despise him. Jeb is a Bush. He has less self-awareness than the average piece of fruit in your refrigerator. All of these losers should be shown the door forthwith.
   *  Leaving ... a black hole. The GOP has nothing to offer, not a single candidate that can lead competently AND poll strongly.
   *  From the mannerly Obama . . . to a bombastic braggart . . . what a nightmare.
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Here's How Scott Walker's Implosion May Really Matter for 2016

Follow the money.

By Russ Choma, September 21, 2015

A sullen Scott Walker appeared at a brief press conference in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday afternoon to announce that he was "suspending" his presidential campaign, citing an overly crowded field. Walker never mentioned Donald Trump by name, but his exit underscored how the bombastic businessman turned GOP front-runner has altered the race in a way few would have predicted. Walker, who began the year with a commanding lead in Iowa and what many suspected was the explicit support of the libertarian billionaire Koch brothers, polled at less than one-half of 1 percent in the most recent national polling. He encouraged other remaining GOP candidates to follow his lead, "so the voters can focus on a limited number of candidates who can offer a positive conservative alternative to the current front-runner."

Despite his strong start and sterling conservative credentials—winning three elections in the once-progressive bastion of Wisconsin and breaking the backs of public unions in that state—Walker's standing has tumbled steadily in recent weeks. In the latest GOP debate on CNN last week, he looked flat and hesitant to jump in amid a format encouraging the candidates to spar with one another. His constituents were also turning against him, with his approval rating reaching an all-time low last month. Even some of Walker's political allies in the Republican-held Wisconsin legislature criticized Walker after he tried painting himself as a political outsider, despite having held elected office for 23 of the 25 years since he left college.

Following the CNN debate, the chatter was that Walker's biggest donors were demanding wholesale change to his campaign. Back when Walker led in the polls, profiles of him tended to focus on the fact that he served as his own chief strategist—which apparently left few options when the donors came looking for a fall guy. Top donors were also said to be scheming to get rid of campaign manager Rick Wiley. But as recently as Friday, Walker said on a conference call with donors that he was going to make no changes.

Apparently that wasn't going to cut it. "Donors have totally dried up for Walker," a campaign insider told the New York Times, because "the candidate and the campaign just couldn't inspire confidence."

The most interesting question amid the wreckage of Walker's campaign may now be this: Where will his wealthy backers go with their money? In July, the super-PAC supporting Walker, Unintimidated PAC, reported having locked up more than $20 million, placing him in the top echelon of GOP candidates in terms of financial backing. The bulk of the money, $13.4 million, came from just four people, including Wisconsin-based roofing supply magnate Diane Hendricks, a longtime supporter who gave $5 million.

Most of Walker's war chest came from outside traditional sources, in part because he never achieved much traction in strongholds for GOP campaign money such as Texas. Instead, his campaign and super-PAC seemed to rely on big donors who Walker had cultivated for his state political runs and who were based in the Midwest. Hendricks, for example, has never laid out such large sums of cash for political causes as she has for Walker; the next largest check she has written to a national group was $1 million (donated last fall to the Koch-affiliated Freedom Partners Action Fund). With so many candidates remaining, Walker's biggest impact on 2016 may have to do with where his deep-pocketed former backers turn next.
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