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.
There are probably a dozen or so Union autos with stuffed ballot boxes in the trunk, just waiting to be dispatched to the appropriate precincts.
As of 8:44 am EDT Prosser has a lead of 835 votes with 99% of the precincts reporting.
Yep, they’ll be finding boxes of ballots in car trunks and under the stairs in church polling places for months to come.
Ya know, I really think we are going to need a huge turnout for any Republican candidate in 2012. The lunatics are going to be out in full force for B. O.
The union bosses for public sector unions are the politicians. Private industry is another matter.
Starving is just part of it.
LLS
“If republicans cannot win an election by greater than 10% of the vote, they do not deserve the win, for that margin is not enough to overcome the votes we can manufacture” - Bill Daley
>>>> With all due respect, Franken did NOT steal the election from Coleman. >>>>
Not sure I agree. While the Coleman camp may have gotten outsmarted in the recount, I suspect the election was stolen on election night.
In 2000, Robert Cook did an “Explicit statistical evidence of massive ballot tampering in Palm Beach, Fl” as reported here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1054629/posts
The entire article is not reproduced in the FR posting, but it can be found elsewhere on the net, and the article includes this observation:
“Palm Beach County was one the last counties in Florida to release its voting results, and the Palm Beach County results were critical in a last minute “surge” in Gore votes that reduced Bush’s lead from 50,000 votes (in Florida overall) to less than 1500. Late delivery of votes, with the specific precinct vote count delayed until the required number of votes is known, is classic symptom of local election fraud. It DOES NOT prove fraud, but late delivery of vote results is the most common way of tampering with the vote, and is essential if ballot tampering is involved in the vote fraud. Late delivery of fraudulent votes has happened in several previous democratic elections at the national level, showing that the individuals involved had close knowledge of previous fraud and its successes.”
(I don’t remember for certain, but I believe Miami-Dade county was also late in reporting its final tally, sitting at 99% reported all night.)
I was reminded of Mr. Cook’s statement while watching the returns in the MN Senate race. Coleman had a nice lead with 99% of the precincts reporting, and that figure remained at 99% as more votes ‘trickled in’ from Cook county (Duluth) and the vote gap dwindled until Coleman’s lead disappeared.
Now the Wisconsin votes sits at 99% with most of the late reporting from precincts favoring Kloppenburg. I fear that as the rest of the results ‘trickle in’ Prosser’s lead will vanish.
I hope I’m wrong.
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Revolution will come if they keep acting like America is a banana republic... which we are mighty close to becoming.
LLS
A President with BALLS and Mark Levin as Attorney General, would ensure that the RICO ACT would be used to jail all of the anti American union leadership.
LLS
Can be understood both ways.
RE: Its over. Franken II. Unless the Wisconsin SoS has balls.
The Wisconsin SoS belongs to the Rat party. enuf said.
How bad was Doyle? Was he a Soros-type Democrat who would have stacked the board with the most venal Democrat-Socialists?
I don’t buy it. Where did you see that quotation?
During the 2000 debacle relating to recounts. It was attributed to the senior, not junior.
What happened in Minnesota was not what happened in Washington or other races.
Not being a smart ass but whrn I was younger the mafia controlled the private sector unions. Has that changed.
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