[Cincinatus' Wife]

Reuters: "........As of 12:41 a.m. Central time, Prosser had garnered 727,208 of the votes cast while Kloppenburg had tallied 725,205.

Officials in Eau Claire, Wisconsin were hand-counting ballots into the night, according to the website WisPolitics.com, which also reported that a number of absentee votes still needed to be counted.

If Prosser, a longtime Wisconsin judge and former Republican legislator, holds onto his lead, it will keep the state high court's 4-3 conservative majority intact.

A Prosser victory would be a setback for Democrats, who channeled their anger about the union restrictions into the Supreme Court election campaign as a proxy vote on Walker's policies........"

WisPolitics Election Blog.

Supreme Court race still too close to call, Prosser has narrow lead

"Jean S."Live thread: Wisconsin Supreme Court election - Prosser vs Kloppenburg

[LibLieSlayer]

If we lose they will destroy us... if Prosser wins... he needs to nuke the unions... kill their power and stop them from any future at all. Wisconsin and America depend on their demise... bunch of infected communist malcontents.

LLS

[irish guard]

585 vote Prosser lead right now after more than 1.4 million votes cast. Yipe

[Uncle Ike]

How quaint - the author still apparently clings to the outdated notion that the end-game in close elections has anything to do with ballots actually cast and counted...

[D Rider]

Prosser will lose by the third recount.

[Matchett-PI]

bttt

[harpu]

ELECTION RESULTS

[FlingWingFlyer]

I don’t know how this is going to end because we are dealing with evil and corrupt teachers unions and “useful idiot” college “students” here. However, IMHO, you folks in Wisconsin did an OUTSTANDING job taking on BIG labor with their BIG money and old hippy activist “judge”.

[RockinRight]

Why does this sound suspiciously like Rossi vs. Gregoire in WA a few ears back?

[montag813]

It’s over. Franken II. Unless the Wisconsin SoS has balls.

[aruanan]

I know that whatever happens the Democrats will try a la Al Franken in Minnesota to screw around until they invent enough votes to win. If they try this, Prosser and the Republicans had better do a take no prisoners, all out assault on voter fraud and build a case that cannot be ignored or, if ignored by those responsible for prosecution, will demonstrate such an egregious violation of laws and ethics that voters won’t ignore it in upcoming elections. It seems there has been too much of a “well, it’ll all turn out right in the end” attitude amongst some Republicans. True, God will give everyone his just desserts in the end, but for us it’s got to be, “FINAL JUDGMENT NOW and we’re going to make sure it happens.”

[mosesdapoet]

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

[Logic n' Reason]

As of 7AM, April 6....the vote difference between the two is less than 400....with Prosser in the lead

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.

[bmwcyle]

The graves are opening now for voting.

[Neverforget01]

The real sad part of all of this is that the elected officials in Wisconsin have lost all their power to the state Supreme Court. Why bother having state reps at all? If all laws now have to pass through the courts, maybe we could save a lot of time and just start there.

[Redleg Duke]

If it is this close, I fear that the RATS and their Union Bosses will steal the election.

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.

[USMA '71]

I don't want to rain on anybody’s parade - but a quick review of the precincts yet to report shows that they are mostly from counties that have already voted heavily in favor of Kloppenburg. As usual, the progressives hold a few cards to be played late in the game so they know exactly how many votes they need to manufacture in order to win. Prosser loses.

[SoFloFreeper]

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.