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I did not know that.
Today, I told my 8-year-old daughter what a strike is, and what a union is, and why striking workers are fighting for all of us.
Tomorrow, we’re going to go down to where the Verizon employees are picketing and give them a thank-you card.
Tell them thank you for me.
Steven, I recommend using this link:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2011/by_county/WI_State_Senate_0809.html?SITE=AP&SE
CTION=POLITICS
It gives the precincts. Darling numbers, for instance, are in heavily Republican Ozaukee. Milwaukee has yet to report. Etc etc.
The Republicans come out of this in a much stronger position. It’s looking terrible at this point. The GOP has already won 2 of the races, and a third will probably be called quite soon. There aren’t a lot of votes reported yet in the King-Hopper race, but King is behind where she has to be if she is going to win. The Democrats will win one seat (Shilling), and possibly two (Pasch, but it would be an upset). They needed three.
King is doing a little better as more votes come in. So there is still a chance the GOP could lose three seats, but it’s a slender hope.
Not so slender.
Pasch 12,064 56% Darling 9,528 44% with tons of Milwaukee Co. still outstanding.
King 24,458 50% Hopper 24,321 50% with only friendly Winnebago Co. still outstanding.
At this point, it looks like we get three.
Pasch lost overwhelmingly in Washington county (since your update) so it really doesn’t look so good. King might hold on — but I don’t know anything about the outstanding precincts there.
King was just called the winner.
Ozaukee and Waukesha still have a lot left, too, and those are staunchly Republican strongholds.
It’s a toss-up in both.
We got two — Shiller and King. It doesn’t look good for Pasch, but she put up a hell of a fight.
Democratic spokesman Graeme Zielinski accuses Cathy Nickolaus, Waukesha County clerk, of tampering with the votes in the Pasch/Darling contest. “Sitting on votes.” Funny, isn’t it, how the results of these important elections always end up in Waukesha County
A Pasch win would give the majority in the House to the Dems.
It is true that Pasch was in the lead nearly all the way through to the end.
And that idiot Kathy Nickolaus is trending worldwide on Twitter now!! This is the 3rd election she has stolen.
it’s funny because she’s got one precinct left to report and Milwaukee hasn’t updated in an hour. Plus, Ozaukee has two precincts outstanding.
Seems like we’re trying wait them out and get them to show their cards before we’ll release Milwaukee. Big game of chicken.
But I kept hearing (over at Menomonee Falls Patch), a half an hour ago at least, that all Milwaujee votes had been counted. What gives?
But I kept hearing (over at Menomonee Falls Patch), a half an hour ago at least, that all Milwaukee votes had been counted. What gives?
The Koch brothers spent $200 per Republican voter on media and GOTV, and still had to depend on Kathy Nickolaus to steal it.
Maybe, but we’re the one’s not releasing results from twelve precincts. They have three they’re holding back, and two of them are not in Waukesha Co.
And 12 of them are in Milwaukee.
12 of ours, I mean.
David Nir on Daily Kos reported at 12:30am ET:
I don’t know how true this is, but waiting her out would mean that she didn’t have a final total to shoot for.
Watching the returns I just realized how much I’ve come to hate elections. I can’t remember the last time I didn’t have that sick feeling while the precincts come trickling in. I think I used to find election night exciting.
Why? This was a major win.
Yep. Now 16 Senators will have to find rooms out of state instead of 14.
From a practical standpoint, how was it a win in terms of what the legislature and the governor can do?
Yes, it is a win to end the careers of Randy (“Bed”) Hopper and Dan Karpanke.
But the continuing problem with Waukesha’s voting reporting does not augur well for a recall of Scott Walker.
Even if the Supreme Court election and this election were not really stolen, the fact that these controversies turned up bupkus means that it will be easier to steal the recall election of Scott Walker.
Let’s see what happens. I get the feeling the Dem strategists were prepared for this …
I hope you’re right. It would be nice for Democratic strategists to be prepared for surprises.
It would be nice if Democratic strategist sprung some surprises of their own.
Maybe, but that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate our victories for once. Man lol, for all the tut-tut’ing I’ve been getting lately, it’s odd that I think we should be celebrating and organizing our next move rather than moping about “falling short.” The GOP loses two seats, has to steal a third, and they want to spin THAT as anything but a loss?
I say we make a list of senators who we petition for recall while we’re out hunting for Walker. SD-05 Vukmir, SD-21 Wanggaard, SD-23 Moulton, SD-29 Galloway. Best part is since we’re recalling Walker it will only cost the price of the ink to print their names on the ballots to recall them.
You are right we should celebrate winning two.
And we should focus on the next step, which is the recall of Scott Walker. But we should be more clear-eyed about the the chances of succeeding after this. Nate Silver, based on the voting information from last night, rates them 50%-50%.
A back of the envelope math that I did predicts that spending at the level that the Koch brothers did to save the state senate for Republicans indicates a budget of $220 million to save Walker’s hide.
There are more costs than printing names on a ballot to recalling more Senators, and some will be up for election in 2012 anyway. You have to have candidates to replace them, which requires all the election paraphernalia with those candidates names on them. The recall election likely will be another special election–filing can occur in January and the election probably with the 2012 primaries. So the GOTV for the primaries will favor the GOP who have a presidential horse race; that means that GOTV for a recall will be more expensive in order to try to make up the enthusiasm gap. I hate to say it, but despite the long lines, the GOP seemed to have turned out their people again.
And it will be difficult because having slammed through all of his controversial legislation, ending with redistricting being signed election day, Walker can now be more “bipartisan” and “heal the divisions that have been created by the protesters”. And there folks who will fall for that narrative — even schoolteachers, police officers, and firefighters.
“This was all supposed to be about the workers’ rights, so to speak. But that has not been brought up one time. It’s all been misleading, the attack ads, things like that,” Gill said. “The one reason they started this recall, they didn’t bring up once.“
Republicans are masters of distraction, Democrats always bite.