Walker's 'Waterloo': 19 Counties Flip To Dems

Scott Walker's 'Waterloo': 19 Counties Flip To Democrats In Wisconsin Supreme Court Race

WASHINGTON -- A divisive budget battle between labor unions and Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) turned a state Supreme Court race into a nationally watched bellwether on the electorate's mood heading into a recall campaign and the 2012 elections.

Nearly 1.5 million people turned out to vote, representing 33.5 percent of voting-age adults -- 68 percent higher than the 20 percent turnout officials had expected. JoAnne Kloppenburg has already declared victory, with the vote tallies showing her beating incumbent David Prosser by just a couple hundred votes [206 votes]. The race is expected to head to a recount.

Significantly, 19 counties that went for Walker in the 2010 elections this time flipped and went for Kloppenburg, including LaCrosse (59 percent), Sauk (56 percent) and Dunn (56 percent).

"If we win this, then what happens is the momentum toward the recalls becomes overwhelming, and people will really be fired up because they have a victory," said Pines. "There's nothing like a victory to keep people's motivation high, and there's nothing like a loss to demoralize your opponents."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/0 ... 45612.html

So much for the "my way or the highway" method of governance. I guess after installing some of his campaign contributors' unqualified offspring in $81,000/+/year jobs; trying to take away collective bargaining rights by illegal means; and thinking he had a "mandate" to screw every union except the two that supported him, he's finding out that all he's managed to do is enrage the people enough to start replacing his people in the courts and to recall the senators.... Come January, Walker's recall is surely next.

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Wisconsin Election Results: David Prosser, JoAnne Kloppenburg Await Official Outcome In State Supreme Court Race

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin voters sent Republican Gov. Scott Walker a clear message about their unhappiness with his muscling through a law restricting union rights by sending a once runaway state Supreme Court race toward a near-certain recount and filling the governor's former post with a Democrat.

While Walker downplayed the significance of Tuesday's elections on Wednesday, saying they were skewed by exceptional turnout in the liberal cities of Madison and Milwaukee, Democrats warned they were only a sign of what's to come. Recall efforts have been launched against 16 state senators from both parties for their support or opposition to the bill eliminating most public employees' collective bargaining rights.

"This continues to add fuel to the tremendous fire of enthusiasm and passion to recall the Republican senators that support Scott Walker's backwards priorities for the state," Wisconsin Democratic Party chairman Mike Tate said of the election results.

On Wednesday, two liberal groups, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy for America, announced they planned to pour another $125,000 into ads supporting recall drives against eight Republican state senators who backed Walker's bill.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/0 ... 45324.html

:Snooze :Snooze :Snooze

Wisconsin is a liberal state so this could just be seen as a return to normalcy, but off year elections can easily be won by a small, determined minority. 2012 will be a better judge to see if Wisconsin has become purple or back to blue.

Darn that Walker for actually addressing the hard issues. Lets just keep driving off the cliff instead...

Scott Walker Struggles To Downplay Wisconsin Election That His Allies Built Up As A Referendum

WASHINGTON -- After JoAnne Kloppenburg declared victory on Wednesday over conservative incumbent Justice David Prosser in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, Gov. Scott Walker (R) quickly tried to convince the public that the result was not a referendum on him, his legislation that stripped collective bargaining from public employees, or the state's embattled Republican Party. But before the election, back when Prosser's victory looked more likely, Walker's allies were branding it as exactly that.

Just a couple of weeks ago, few people thought Kloppenburg could beat Prosser, a close ally of Walker's. She lost by 30 points to Prosser in the February primary (the election is nonpartisan), and incumbents for the state's high court have rarely been unseated.

Even the labor community, which desperately wanted Kloppenburg to win, had doubts. Labor groups had been trying to avoid framing the race as a referendum on Walker, one labor official said, because they were not confident that Kloppenburg could upset Prosser -- and it was clear Walker and his allies were anticipating a much-needed symbolic win. "Let's put it this way," said the official, "I had Prosser winning in the office pool, and I wasn't alone."

While the outcome of Tuesday's election is undoubtedly headed for a recount, results show that Kloppenburg beat Prosser by 204 votes. As The Huffington Post reported, 19 counties that Walker won in the 2010 gubernatorial race flipped this time and went for Kloppenburg. The Wisconsin Democratic Party called the result Walker's "Waterloo." Walker rejected that characterization in a press conference on Wednesday.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/0 ... 46042.html


Wow... I guess this was an "important referendum"--until he lost, and then all of a sudden it wasn't. Hmmm, that's sounding familiar...It was--before it wasn't.

BREAKING WISCONSIN UPDATE: Computer Error Could Swing 7,000 Votes to GOP Judge

By Sharif Durhams, Journal Sentinel

The latest vote count in the state Supreme Court race in Winnebago County indicates incumbent David Prosser is leading Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg in votes.

A tally compiled by The Associated Press Wednesday and used by news organizations statewide, including the Journal Sentinel, indicated Kloppenburg was leading the race by 204 votes. Figures on Winnebago County's website are now different from those collected by the AP.

Winnebago County's numbers say Prosser received 20,701 votes to Kloppenburg's 18,887. The AP has 19,991 for Prosser to Kloppenburg's 18,421.

The new numbers would give Prosser 244 more votes or a 40-vote lead statewide.



Computer Error Could Give Prosser 7,381 More Votes, Victory

By Christian Schneider

After Tuesday night's Wisconsin Supreme Court election, a computer error in heavily Republican Waukesha County failed to send election results for the entire City of Brookfield to the Associated Press. The error, revealed today, would give incumbent Supreme Court Justice David Prosser a net 7,381 votes against his challenger, attorney Joanne Kloppenburg. On Wednesday, Kloppenburg declared victory after the AP reported she finished the election with a 204-vote lead, out of nearly 1.5 million votes cast.

On election night, AP results showed a turnout of 110,000 voters in Waukesha County - well short of the 180,000 voters that turned out last November, and 42 percent of the county's total turnout. By comparison, nearly 90 percent of Dane County voters who cast a ballot in November turned out to vote for Kloppenburg.

Prior to the election, Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus was heavily criticized for her decision to keep the county results on an antiquated personal computer, rather than upgrade to a new data system being utilized statewide. Nickolaus cited security concerns for keeping the data herself - yet when she reported the data, it did not include the City of Brookfield, whose residents cast nearly 14,000 votes.

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rofllol rofllol rofllol rofllol rofllol

And now that they decided it "wasn't REALLY important" (because they were losing), will it suddenly be important and a "referendum on the Governor" if they suddenly win?

Wow...


Oh, yeah... The obligatory: rofllol rofllol rofllol rofllol rofllol

How conveeeeeenient that these extra votes suddenly materialize on a computer that was not protected, or locked up, or sequestered in any way... Almost sounds like the voting procedures in Park County for Sheriff!

Squealing like a stuck pig