Jack. wrote:
On Apr 6, 3:06 pm, wrote:
Jack. wrote:
On Apr 6, 2:39 pm, wrote:
It ain't over until it is over, but for two candidates to be a couple of
hundred votes apart when more than a million votes were cast...amazing.
If Kloppenburg wins, it will be a stiff repudiation of the state's
republican governor. The gov's man also lost in a race to run the
Milwaukee county government.
A "stiff repudiation" would be a landslide win. A win by 200 votes
out of a million is a dead heat, and is statistically insignificant.
Virtually half the state supports the governor.
One has to wonder how much the *unions* spent on the election. :-
The Repubs outspent the Dems.


There's no doubt that union money and thugs put the dems over the top
and in the lead. There was a lot at stake for them. That and a
little ACORN action, eh?

We've seen it before just a couple of years ago. The dems have a new
playbook on cheating.


Whoops...analysis from the post:

Why the left’s showing in Wisconsin Supreme Court race is a big deal
By Greg Sargent

In the nationally-watched Wisconsin state Supreme Court race, liberal
challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg has edged ahead of conservative sitting
justice David Prosser by just over 200 votes.

We still don’t know who is going to win, and we may not know for some
time to come. But even if Kloppenburg loses, labor strategists argue,
this will have constituted a victory for unions and Dems — proof of
Scott Walker’s continuing toxicity, and of the staying power of the
grassroots energy he unleashed. They’re right.

The emerging GOP spin on this race, according to Ben Smith, is that the
razor-thin closeness of the contest constitutes vindication for Walker,
and proof that the right can stand up to the labor goons. One GOPer
tells Smith (who was appropriately skeptical) that this is a “massive
bummer for the bad guys” because labor and Dems threw “everything they
have” at this race.

Sure, GOPers will be able to crow if they win, but this is still mostly
nonsense. Here’s why.

First, the current results reflect a massive and astonishingly fast
swing of support away from Prosser and in Kloppenburg’s favor. In a
primary election in February (Wisconsin judicial elections are
nonpartisan, and the top two primary victors face off in the general),
Prosser beat Koppenburg by 30 points, 55-25. The current results show
she doubled her vote share in just over six weeks, while Prosser has
lost ground. This huge shift happened for one reason: Scott Walker.

Second, it’s extremely rare in Wisconsin to oust sitting Supreme Court
justices. In 2008, Louis Butler was unseated, but as University of
Wisconsin professor Charles Franklin points out to me, he had originally
been appointed and not elected. The last time this happened before that
was 44 years ago, and it only happened three times before that since the
court was created in 1852.

Third, for all the talk about labor muscle in this race, labor and Dems
were actually outspent on the air by a sizable amount. According to an
analysis of outside spending by the Brennan Center, the pro-Kloppenburg
forces spent $1.3 million, while the pro-Prosser forces spent a total of
almost $2.2 million, nearly $1 million more. You can argue that TV
spending doesn’t matter that much in this race, because a lot of this
was driven by on-the-ground organizing, but if anything, the race’s
closeness would make it even clearer that labor’s ground forces
outperformed expections.

No question, a loss for Kloppenburg would allow GOPers to claim a
much-needed victory and boast that they held off labor’s onslaught. But
even without a win, labor and Dems will have exceeded expectations big
time, and will have proved that the grassroots energy unleashed by
Walker’s overreach is still in full force. And of course, if Kloppenburg
does pull this off, it will constitute a huge win that will only lend
more momentum to the recall drives and confirm that Walker remains as
politically toxic as ever.