Pull out your violin and play a sympathetic tune for this news from The Business Journal:

The Wisconsin Economic Scorecard for the second quarter of 2013 was recently released and found that 56 percent of residents think the state is “headed in the right direction,” 28 percent view the economy as “good” and just 1 percent say it is “excellent.” …

The Wisconsin Economic Scorecard is a quarterly poll of Wisconsin residents conducted by the Center for Urban Initiatives and Research at the University of Wisconsin in cooperation with WisBusiness.com and Milwaukee Public Radio.

Only 29 percent of those surveyed think the economy rates “good” or better. And yet 56 percent think the state’s going in the right direction. That is three percentage points more than the 2010 and (illegitimate) recall election percentages of Gov. Scott Walker.

(Insert comments from Democrats about how voters are stupid or duped or bought off by big campaign spending here.)