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Links: 19 Wisconsin counties flip to vote Democrat after Scott Walker's anti-union bill
By Ben ReiningaApril 7th, 2011, 6:47 pmComments (10)
The Wisconsin Supreme Court race has been in the national news since Republican governor Scott Walker tried to cast it as a test case for how well his anti-union bill went over. The answer? Badly, it seems. Democrat JoAnne Kloppenburg, who was losing in the polls by thirty points, seems to have come back and won.
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not the case in wi anymore. clerk in waukesha co "found" some 7000-odd votes for the incumbent judge. prosser now ahead.
The clerk, Kathy Nickolaus, is a Republican party hack who worked for this self-same Justice Prosser when he was the Republican Assembly Leader. "In 2001, Nickolaus was granted immunity to testify about her role as a computer analyst for the Assembly Republican Caucus, then under investigation -- along with the Senate Republican Caucus and the Democratic caucuses for both houses -- for using state resources to secretly run campaigns." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/07/david-prosser-wisconsin-supreme...
More like they "lost" 7000-odd votes until just now. Should those votes not have counted? Or should they only have counted if cast in the manner you prefer? GO TEAM!
Wow! "Found" votes that are predominantly Republican? Amazing!
Much like the attempt in Florida to "find" Democrat votes by suing for recounts in selected counties instead of the whole state.
The shoes on the other foot and you complain that your own tactics are used against you.
Why is that not surprising.
Dr. Spaceman?
This is an issue based election, at least for the Supreme Court position.
In these types of elections those who feel strongly on the issue will vote, not necessarily the same people who would vote if the issue were not present.
So it's very hard to call this one a flip if the voting bloc is completely changed.
Much like the last mid term election. The Tea Party rallied their bloc on the issues and many who would only vote in a Presidential election, showed up to be counted in a midterm, which is usually an election cycle with low voter turnout.
The clerk is highly partisan, but the new results that placed Prosser in the lead were also approved by the Democratic party's county chair. The votes at issue had been received and counted but not properly added to the final tally. They went back and caught the mistake, just like other counties did, except the mistake at issue was larger than the others because they forgot to add the votes for a whole city.
LIAR! LIAR! BURN GINO! If there's been a mistake and it's to the benefit of Republicans, then that alone is evidence of malfeasance!
LIARS! ALL OF YOU ARE LIARS!
Touchdown! That's a raelly cool way of putting it!
Now you say something