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JoAnn Kloppenburg finally conceded the Wisconsin Supreme Court race this morning, announcing that she had called incumbent Justice David Prosser to congratulate him on his win. She had until today to file a challenge to the recount, which gained her 312 votes but still left her slightly over 7,000 votes behind Prosser in the hotly-contested election: Candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg has accepted the results of the recount in her state Supreme Court race and conceded to incumbent Justice David Prosser.Prosser originally won the election by 7,316 votes, out of 1.5 million cast. Kloppenburg requested a statewide recount through, which she picked...

MADISON (WAOW) -- JoAnne Kloppenburg will hold a press conference in Madison on Tuesday, May 31 at 11:00 a.m. to announce her decision whether to request judicial review of the recount results in the Supreme Court election. Those results show Justice David Prosser beat Kloppenberg. Prosser had more than 752,000 votes compared to 745,691. Initial results from the April 5th election showed Kloppenburg narrowly defeated Prosser. But the Waukesha County clerk announced days later she had failed to report 14,000 votes, flipping the race for Prosser.

From the moment Barack Obama took center stage at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, the world has been busily trying to decipher the man. No one has been more busy reading Obama in the years since than the chair of the Harvard History Department, the esteemed Dr. James Kloppenberg. At numerous symposia, on both sides of the Atlantic, he has shared his distinctive insights on our 44th president. In his new book, Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition, Kloppenberg has assembled his insights into a misreading of Obama so sincere and so profound that it causes one...

In Sauk County, there’s a convent, Valley of our Lady Monastery that is inhabited by 18 Cistercian nuns. These nuns take a vow of silence, with their main occupation being the making the communion wafers. I am not making this up, the website couldn’t be better: http://www.nunocist.org/page2.html. The majority of these nuns stay at the Monastery their entire life…living the simplest of simple lives. Every election the Town of Sumpter Clerk, Donna Ziegler, drops off 18 ballots so the nuns can vote. She later picks them up, prior to the election in a single, large, sealed envelope—not opening the large...

According to Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg ), Joanne Kloppenburg was born Joanne Fishman in Avon, Connecticut. Joelle Fishman, who is older than Kloppenburg, has been in Connecticut for decades, and is the Chairman of the Connecticut Communist Party USA. http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/Joelle_Fishman

4/8 11:36 AM – Been adding in official #s. Currently Prosser gained 7,478 votes over AP count. Threshold for a free recount is 7,482. Prosser currently leads Kloppenburg by 7,254 – 228 votes under the free recount threshold. Current total: Prosser 751,890-Klopp 744,636

By now everyone knows the race for State Supreme Court in Wisconsin is a virtual dead heat, with only 204 votes separating the two candidates out of the nearly 1.5 MILLION cast. The liberal Kloppenberg has already declared victory, even though the results have not been certified yet. The 204 vote difference is a number derived by the AP as results are reported throughout the state to the news organization. AP then compiles and announces the results. In the next few days, the 1830 municipal clerks in the state will certify the results of their polling places and the STATE...

Unofficial results Wednesday showed Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg with a paper-thin lead over Justice David Prosser after a race marked by massive voter turnout, Gov. Scott Walker's union bargaining plan and record spending by outside interest groups. As of 2:15 p.m., The Associated Press had tallied results for all of the state's 3,630 precincts and Kloppenburg had taken a 204-vote lead after Prosser had been ahead most of the night by less than 1,000 votes. Kloppenburg declared victory based on the AP's results. "Wisconsin voters have spoken and I am grateful for, and humbled by, their confidence and trust,"...

As the dust settles in Madison, Wisconsin Republicans face a troubling coda: Gov. Scott Walker’s budget-repair bill is being tripped up in the courts. Union heavies smell blood. And the unruly parade of lefty activists and hulking Teamsters that occupied the state capitol for weeks is back for a bruising final round. On paper, at issue is whether senate Republicans violated the state’s open-meeting laws. In mid-March, after a three-week stalemate, GOP lawmakers hustled Walker’s bill to the floor. The senate clerk approved the maneuver. But 14 Democratic state senators, on the lam in Illinois, howled in absentia. So did...

Warren professor of American history James T. Kloppenberg, a specialist in the intellectual history of the United States and Europe and now chair of the history department, observed the 2008 presidential election from afar: he was teaching at the University of Cambridge. As he lectured on the U.S. political tradition and studied Barack Obama’s writings, he began to see three strong, but unexamined, themes. The first is Obama’s sophisticated understanding of America’s history and its continuing democratic experiment. The second is the idea of pragmatism—America’s principal contribution to Western philosophy—which was first elaborated by William James and John Dewey, themselves...