“The question will be for the average person in Wisconsin?s hinterlands, did the things that Scott Walker did offer more good than bad?” asks Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of political science and an expert in campaigns and elections. “Nobody will like everything that happened, but are you happier that your taxes didn?t go up and that we managed to balance the budget than you are unhappy about cuts to K through 12 education, the UW System and health care, and changes to collective bargaining?” Burden says “I think that is going to be the litmus test for the recall.”