As of 1:23 am, CST, Prosser was holding a slim lead:
| Supreme Court | REPORTING | 99% | |
| David Prosser (inc) | 733,074 | 50% | |
| Joanne Kloppenburg | 732,489 | 50% |
It looks likely that the vote will come down to a recount. And I hate to be a pessimist, but, recounts, somehow, always end up swinging in the Dems’ favor.
But this has to be a moral victory for Republicans. The unions rallied fiercely, spent a million dollars on this race, and threw everything but the kitchen sink at Prosser, and it looks like he may yet squeak out a (temporary) win.
The death of the tea party has been greatly exaggerated.
UPDATE:
| RESULTS as of Wednesday, Apr 06, 2011 at 08:12 am CDT Election Home
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UPDATE II:
Who could have predicted that the late, hand-counted votes would swing Kloppenburg’s way:
RESULTS as of Wednesday, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:47 am CDT
Election Home
| Supreme Court | REPORTING | 99% | |
| Joanne Kloppenburg | 739,574 | 50% | |
| David Prosser (inc) | 739,350 | 50%
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UPDATE III:
The latest update at Hot Air by Allahpundit:
As of 12:45 ET, 3629 of 3630 precincts are reporting — and Kloppenburg still leads by 224 votes. Two caveats, though. First, the vote totals didn’t change after the last two precincts came in, so the AP may still be in the process of updating the numbers. Keep an eye out here. And second, the one remaining precinct is in Jefferson Country, which has been leaning towards Prosser. He could still close the gap. Or maybe we’ll end in … a tie.
UPDATE IV:
The final tally has Klopps up 204 — let the recount begin:
| Supreme Court | REPORTING | 100% | |
| Joanne Kloppenburg | 740,090 | 50% | |
| David Prosser (inc) | 739,886 | 50% |
See also:
Legal Insurrection: Lessons of Wisconsin Supreme Court Election
April, 6, 2011 at 2:06 am
You’re kidding about the kitchen sink, right? You must know that Repubs outspent Dems at least 2-1 in this campaign — much of it that outside money that Walker so deplored during the protests.
And they used those dollars to throw mud, and more things much worse than the kitchen sink, at Kloppenburg, esp. during the crucial last hours. If Prosser does end up winning, it will be in the same way that they beat Feingold, the same way they have won most of their recent elections: LIES.
April, 6, 2011 at 4:17 am
You must know that Repubs outspent Dems at least 2-1 in this campaign
We’d appreciate some sort of citation for that claim. Otherwise we’ll have to assume that you pulled it from your nether regions.
April, 6, 2011 at 5:50 am
Oh don’t worry Kathe,
I’m sure the democrats will find hundreds , if not thousands of votes, left over accidentally in someone’s trunk, like they usually do. And there will be plenty of dead people voting for democrats this year too. So keep your chin up!
April, 6, 2011 at 6:02 am
I have to say, when the vote is this close, the Dems usually win. They feel like they were cheated in 2000, and therefore its ok to put a thumb on the scale for their candidate when they need to. Oddly enough, this also allows them to blame Bush, which is like giving them a hall pass to commit murder.
I personally guarantee that the margin of victory for the Dems will be perfectly correlated to the number of ballots submitted as ‘Che Guavera’, ‘Noodle Store Socialist’, and ‘Mickey Mouse.’
April, 6, 2011 at 8:30 am
You must know that Repubs outspent Dems at least 2-1 in this campaign
Yeah, a cite for that would be nice.
And they used those dollars to throw mud, and more things much worse than the kitchen sink, at Kloppenburg, esp. during the crucial last hours
Like being a pedophile-enabler?
April, 6, 2011 at 11:07 am
i can guarantee you that Trumpka is heading to Madison with some “absentee” ballots. Democrats have been known to weasel their way to unfair wins by cheating.. its just sad
April, 6, 2011 at 3:35 pm
Here are those cites you were looking for. The first article notes that the conservative groups, including the Tea Party Express spent over $1 million http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2011/04/03/1434998/tea-party-labor-spend-big-in-wis.html
The numbers in that article do not include do not include the “game-changer” ad with Fr. Feeney’s sexual abuse victim, which was paid for by the Koch brothers (naturally), or the ads paid by the Club for Growth or the group known as Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce.
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/04/koch-and-prosser/
Speaking of proof, please cite a single instance of Democrats winning by dead people voting, fraudulent votes being found in trunks, or any other form of cheating that doesn’t actually occur but which is nonetheless promulgated by innuendo as a form of voter suppression. Hint: Al Gore didn’t win.
Further hint: Can you spell P-R-O-J-E-C-T-I-O-N?
April, 6, 2011 at 4:38 pm
Althouse points out the breakdowns of all of the non reporting precincts, ad they are all democratic, YET if the precincts not reporting, had a 10% greater trend than surrounding counties prosser still should have won, Oddly it was more than 10% and prosser lost. Funny how that ALWAYS happens.
April, 6, 2011 at 6:42 pm
Speaking of proof, please cite a single instance of Democrats winning by dead people voting, fraudulent votes being found in trunks, or any other form of cheating that doesn’t actually occur but which is nonetheless promulgated by innuendo as a form of voter suppression.
Ask and ye shall receive:
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/fatally-flawed/Content?oid=23586
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/sound-bite/Content?oid=20759
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/07/14/john-lott-al-franken-senate-election-felons-fraud-vote-minnesota-majority-norm/
April, 6, 2011 at 9:05 pm
Here are those cites you were looking for.
Um, no, I was looking for the tea party outspent unions 2 to 1 cite, and “Think Progress” doesn’t count.
Thank you for admitting Algore didn’t win, but of course, we knew that already.
April, 6, 2011 at 10:26 pm
So you told us that:
You must know that Repubs outspent Dems at least 2-1 in this campaign — much of it that outside money that Walker so deplored during the protests.
and following the links of your citation, we find that
Oh dear, the conservative groups needed to spend another half million to double the spending by the Greater Wisconsin Committee.
And the “much of it that outside money” claim? Let’s take a look at where the Greater Wisconsin Committee’s 2010 funding came from:
1 Democratic Governor’s Assn $1,350,000
2 American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees $915,000
3 Greater Wisconsin Cmte $300,000
4 Service Employees International Union $185,000
5 Brico Fund/Time Out Enterprises $175,000
6 Democratic Legislative Campaign Cmte $75,000
6 DLCC Unicorp Fed/Nonfed Pac $75,000
8 Epic Systems (Judith Faulkner)/Not Empl $50,000
8 DLCC Unincorp Nonfed Ind #5 $50,000
10 DLCC Unincorporated Nonfederal Labor $30,000
11 Laborer’S Political League Education Fun $25,000
12 Epic Systems (Judith Faulkner) / Not Emp $10,000
13 Soros Fund Management $5,000
14 Metcalfe Markets $4,000
15 Wisconsin Transportation Builders Associ $2,000
Plenty much outside money there.
BTW, your link didn’t actually say that the Koch brothers paid for anything. Did you want to try backing that claim up as well?
April, 8, 2011 at 10:38 am
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