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In Walker's Wisconsin, Supreme Court Election Heading for Photo Finish
Weekly Standard ^ | April 6, 2011 | John McCormack, The Blog

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.


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: prosser; supremecourt; walker; wisconsin; wisconsinshowdown
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To: blackdog

Do you mean RICHARD J. Daley, the father of the current mayor, Richard M. Daley, and not William Daley, the former Commerce Secretary (and the brother of Richard M. Daley) who recently joined Obama?


61 posted on 04/06/2011 7:30:03 AM PDT by Piranha (If you seek perfection you will end up with Democrats.)
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To: Piranha
The talk show that highlighted that 10% figure, was explaining it as that conservatives disenfranchaise blacks, latinos, felons, the disabled, the elderly, etc... by preventing them from voting or obstructing them.

The logic they used was that those people represent at least 10% of the vote, and that republicans and the like must win by more than that margin in order to have a level playing field.

A conservative win by 8% margin is really a democrat win as plus 2% defined by this mindset.

The elections of the last fifteen years sure seem to bolster the argument.

62 posted on 04/06/2011 7:32:51 AM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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To: Piranha

Yes, that would be corect.


63 posted on 04/06/2011 7:34:54 AM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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To: GreatOne
New updated - Prosser's lead down to 419.

Prosser - 737,224 Communist - 736,805

This is with 6 more precincts in, leaving 18 more to be counted, including 8 precincits from Sauk County.

64 posted on 04/06/2011 7:37:33 AM PDT by GreatOne (You will bow down before me, Son of Jor-el!)
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry
"As of 8:44 am EDT Prosser has a lead of 835 votes with 99% of the precincts reporting."

Prosser wins

Dont despair, Prosser has won this election. Good news ... now, lets not let the Democrats steal it.

65 posted on 04/06/2011 7:39:29 AM PDT by WOSG (Carpe Diem)
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To: Piranha
"Yep. A margin in the few hundreds is easily overcome by the union machine. You need at least an actual 2% margin to avoid Democrat manipulation. Prosser’s done."

This has become an accepted mindset through the media and justice departments both subscribing to the now established "policy"

It also gains talkshow ratings and sells newspapers, so why question a policy which generates enough votes in an election to keep it controvercial? Any election with a less than 10% margin keeps it in the news cycle for a year.

66 posted on 04/06/2011 7:45:51 AM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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To: GreatOne

Does anyone wonder why the most progressive counties and towns seem to be the last ones able to count votes?


67 posted on 04/06/2011 7:47:58 AM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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To: GreatOne
All 8 Suak County precincts now reporting, with the Communist now ahead by 140 votes:

Prosser - 738,228

Communist - 738,368

Not looking good, with 10 precincts still to report, only 3 of which are Prosser-leaning.

68 posted on 04/06/2011 7:55:51 AM PDT by GreatOne (You will bow down before me, Son of Jor-el!)
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To: WOSG

Uh, he’s now losing by 140 votes.


69 posted on 04/06/2011 7:56:19 AM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Terrorism in nothing more than Kinetic Islam)
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To: GreatOne

Suak = Sauk


70 posted on 04/06/2011 7:56:55 AM PDT by GreatOne (You will bow down before me, Son of Jor-el!)
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To: WOSG
Lucy just pulled the football away again.

But either way it will be a couple of hundred votes and there will be a recount.

71 posted on 04/06/2011 7:58:19 AM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: GreatOne
5 more prencincts in, and the Communist's lead has increased to 447:

Prosser - 738,567

Communist - 739,014

Remaining precincts are: one in Jefferson (heavy Prosser), one in Juneau (slightly Communist), two in Milwaukee (heavy Communist), and one in Taylor (heavy Prosser). Still possible, but I presume the Milwaukee County votes will outnumber the remaining 3 counties. Too bad.

72 posted on 04/06/2011 8:23:05 AM PDT by GreatOne (You will bow down before me, Son of Jor-el!)
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To: GreatOne
Correction:

Prosser - 739,070

Communist - 739,381

Still 5 precincts out.

73 posted on 04/06/2011 8:29:01 AM PDT by GreatOne (You will bow down before me, Son of Jor-el!)
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To: GreatOne

Not talking about Two Harbors, the tabulation error, or vote shifts between election night and certification.

Talking about late reporting. Talking about precincts that repeatedly are slow to report their results, precincts that never seem to learn from the mistakes of elections past. (Cook county was also slow to report last November, as were some Twin Cities precincts.) Noticed the same pattern elsewhere last fall — Miami and Chicago come to mind. Before I knew which precincts in WI had yet to report, if you had asked me to guess I would have gone with Milwaukee and Madison area. I was right on Milwaukee with the most (12) but I missed on Madison which only had one precinct in Dane county unreported. (Does Dane-neighboring Sauk county (8) count? Probably not.)

As Robert Cook notes “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.” He goes on to say “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.” You may not agree with his assessment, but I do.

And Surprise, Surprise! The tallies are finally coming in from the slow learners and Prosser now trails by a couple hundred.


74 posted on 04/06/2011 8:58:25 AM PDT by highway61
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To: stayathomemom
Agreed. What is the statistical probability of evenly splitting 1.5 million votes! This is like an act of G-d or getting struck by lightning...
75 posted on 04/06/2011 9:19:00 AM PDT by April Lexington (Study the Constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: Piranha

How bad was Doyle? Was he a Soros-type Democrat who would have stacked the board with the most venal Democrat-Socialists?


Doyle was and is the worst of the worst. On his way out the door, he appointed a bunch of his political cronies to judgeships. Joanne Kloppenburg was so bad that he refused her request for a judgeship twice.


76 posted on 04/06/2011 11:08:04 AM PDT by chickadee
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry

Dang....

we never win the close ones.


77 posted on 04/06/2011 11:45:25 AM PDT by WOSG (Carpe Diem)
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To: blackdog

Please elaborate?

LLS


78 posted on 04/06/2011 2:03:52 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!!!)
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To: Beagle8U

Thanks.

LLS


79 posted on 04/06/2011 2:05:40 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!!!)
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