Posted on 04/06/2011 4:05:28 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The Wisconsin supreme court race between conservative justice David Prosser and liberal assistant attorney general JoAnne Kloppenburg is coming down to the wire. With 99% of precincts reporting, Prosser has a 585-vote lead out of nearly 1.5 million ballots cast. The potentially bad news for Prosser is that of the 34 uncounted precincts, most of them are in counties that voted for Kloppenburg, including 12 in Milwaukee and 1 in Dane.
While the results remain unsettled, here are some takeaways from the night:
--Kloppenburg underperformed, compared to John Kerry who narrowly won the state in 2004, in Democratic Milwaukee and a number of surrounding GOP counties, but she overperformed in Dane county, where the state's capital is seated. Looks like all of those state employees didn't like having their benefits cut.
--One week ago, some internal polling showed that Prosser was trailing by the mid-to-high single digits. Turnout was higher than anyone expected. It looks like conservatives woke up in the end and closed the gap.
--The big fear that Walker's budget-repair bill did serious political damage to Republicans has dissipated somewhat. Wisconsin was basically deadlocked but narrowly voted for Democrats in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, swung to Obama by 13 points in 2008, and then swung to Walker by 5 points in 2010. The fact that Wisconsin's gone back to being a 50-50 state of the Bush years--and not a +13 Democratic state of 2008--is a relief to Republicans.
See my post at #16.
WI Secretary of State: D or R?
D - soros
You can count on this in every election, and in every major city (which USUALLY are Democrat-run cesspools of corruption and dependency on handouts).
Kloppenburg was an activist environmental attorney for the DNR but that connection was never exploited by the Prosser campaign. Her union backing was gingerly approached if at all during the campaign.
The agenda driven media is going to portray this as a victory for the unions. But that is not the case
The closer for Kloppenburg was the use of the pedophile priest and the prosecuter union front funded ad which accused Prosser when as a DA of giving a pass to a Catholic priest accused of and later proven to be a pedophile. Where this ad saturated the airwaves ...
An effective print rebuttal to this is in http://adams.wisgop.info/ and was used. However this site is virtually unknown to area residents and members of this undisciplined organization did not focus on getting that message out doing a precinct blitz for Prosser. . But rather diverted their very limited number in organizing a re-call for a state senator amonst other things
The WI SOS is a nasty, very partisan, Dem. Don’t look for relief there.
There will be civil war first. If we starve, they starve.
We couldn't even hold power for six months....Wisconsin is full of absolute idiots.
I have been pushing all Wisconsin legislators to address the VOTER ID issue for some time. I would bet the farm that there are/were union people coming to Wisconsin from Illinois to vote in this election. Anybody think otherwise? If so, you are badly mistaken.
The Republicans rely on elections. The Democrats have become an "elections-plus" force.
They are playing different games now, by different rules.
I'm actually surprised it took so long after Florida 2000 for them to bring muscle into the game.
Anyway, the GOP is leaderless and clueless for dealing with this.
History teaches how this is going to end.
You know they’ve been stealing elections for years now right. They’re not afraid of reprisal, because they’ve mastered the art of deception.
There WILL be a re-count. Local liberal pundits are asserting the "big difference" was all about turnout. The advertising and heavy "out of state" union spending made the difference.
I do hope the entire right wing learns a lesson from the mess that once was Wisconsin.
In the 2012 national election pitting someone from the rino/repub/conserv/tparty against the foreign born (until proven otherwise) stain...IT IS GOING TO BE ALL ABOUT TURNOUT!!!
The dem/lib/prog/pops know this...and as has been proven in Wisconsin, acted upon their knowledge.
It remains to be seen if the right will follow suite.
I do know that and they’re just as likely to steal the election, but stealing isn’t victory. It can appear to be, but it is totally short term.
Imagine she wins and votes down all the reforms Walker is putting in place. Wisconsin cannot escape reality; no one can. The destructive fiscal policies still exist. How can they be resolved?
Liberals and unions have their model and no alternative - tax and spend. Their policies allow a small minority to live well at the expense of a large majority. That’s an unsustainable system without force and enforcement by violence.
Wisconsinites have the following choices:
1. Move to escape the financial and economic burden of liberalism.
2. Vote even more conservatives to power.
#1 simply exacerbates the problem for those that remain. Eventually, the water boils and the frog jumps.
Excellent. In the martial arts (war arts) you are instructed to punch through the target. Republicans and conservatives think elections end.
We must not make these mistakes again.
We must punch through the target and keep on punching to victory.
I thought this would be a blow out fot the Unions I am impressed.
I’ve been listening to horror stories of how the unions sent workers out into neighborhoods with electronic devices that were sending them info about who had already voted. They would knock on doors and ask (at addresses where people hadn’t voted) if so and so planned to vote. Trying to find valid voters who wouldn’t vote so a clone could be sent in to use that ID.
The graves are opening now for voting.
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