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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Apr 2011
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Amazing race in Wisconsin...
Harryk wrote:
In a race still too close to call, Assistant Attorney General JoAnne
Kloppenburg took a paper-thin lead over Justice David Prosser in the
state Supreme Court race early Wednesday, capping a race marked by
massive voter turnout, Gov. Scott Walker's union bargaining plan, and
record spending by outside interest groups.
As of 11:30 a.m., The Associated Press had results for all but 1 of
the state's 3,630 precincts and Kloppenburg had taken a 235 vote lead
after Prosser had been ahead most of the night by less than 1,000 votes.
That one precinct would appear to be in the Town of Lake Mills, where
town officials were meeting to count the last of the paper ballots.
The Jefferson County Clerk's officer reported that Prosser picked up
only 2 votes in the electronic vote in Lake Mills and that 24
handwritten ballots were not yet counted.The results of a single
township in Jefferson County should be known by about 1 p.m. Wednesday
after local officials finish examining votes from Tuesday's election.
About 220 votes were cast in Town of Lake Mills - seemingly not enough
for Prosser to make up the votes he would need to defeat Kloppenburg.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepo...119308059.html
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.
In the judge race, the Republicans outspent the Dems by a more than 3
to 2 margin.
Amazing boating post!
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