Listening to John Nichols ... glad he is realistic, and thinks the unthinkable could happen i.e. Prosser gets defeated ... that is optimistic ... I hope Nichols is correct. (the election was expected to be a no-contest for a Prosser win) ... but it is neck and neck.

Brad says do not concede until all ballots are counted!

Watch out for dirty tricks in the Wisconsin recount.

But even with 97% of the vote counted, less than 2,000 votes separated the candidates.

That close margin had political insiders from both sides talking about the possibility of a recount, which Wisconsin has avoided in statewide races in recent decades. Any recount could be followed by lawsuits - litigation that potentially would be decided by the high court.

If it goes to recount, then litigation, eventually ending in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, lets hope Prosser recuses himself.

If so, and an even tie results in the final vote there, then the lower court ruling will stand, whatever that lower court ruling is.

A system that handles close races with exactitude is preferable, but probably out of reach in today's culture.

http://hosted.ap.org/dyn...=AP&SECTION=POLITICS

the ap shows klop up 739,014 to prosser 738,567

with 3625 precincts reporting out of 3630 precincts

according to the ap the precincts out are from jefferson,juneau,2 milwaukee and taylor

Can any Dane County or Madison citizens out there report the election results from the referenda on corporate personhood and money as speech on the April 5 ballot?

Haven't seen any reports on the results.

Did see a report that election turnout was up, but not as far as I'd expect --- in the 30+ per cent overall, with some heavy Dem areas as high as 70 percent turnout.

If you can only get 30 per cent overall statewide turnout with the kind of stuff we have seen going down in Wisconsin, it's hard not to conclude that we really are an apathetic nation, or a discouraged one ("voting doesn't change anything").

I wonder if locals think the reported turnout matches up with their experience at the polls?

good comment from bbv

http://www.bbvforums.org...h.cgi?file=/8/81612.html

Turnout shattered predictions. State officials had expected 20 percent in line with past elections, but Democrats' efforts to make the election more about Walker and the union fight than the officially nonpartisan Supreme Court race helped push it to 33 percent.

In another race that became largely about Walker and his policies, Democrat Chris Abele defeated Republican state Rep. Jeff Stone to become Milwaukee County executive, the seat Walker held until he was elected governor in November.

Stone voted twice for Walker's bill taking away nearly all of most state workers' collective bargaining rights from, which put him on the defensive in the race. Abele won with 61 percent of the vote compared with 39 percent for Stone, based on unofficial results.

How can Stone be beaten so bad and the other, more important race be so close? Shouldn't Kloppenburg's lead be similar?

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this is what i was thinking,milwaukees results showing klopp @ 128,644 compared to prosser @ 98,933 really doesnt pass the smell test with the dem winning so large in the exe spot