Wisconsin Supreme Court Election

Mark Noonan

So far, its a nail biter – with 9% reporting, Prosser leads by a bit less than 4,000 votes.

You can follow it on Twitter – someone there says that Feingold won 71% in Dane County, with Koppenberg currently getting 65% so far…if true, then Prosser may be in good shape.

UPDATE: 12% in, Prosser’s lead now at 5,321 votes.

UPDATE II: Yikes! 17% in, Prosser’s lead down to 1,476

UPDATE III: 76% reporting, Prosser’s lead now at 6,793; statistical dead heat; look for a recount no matter who winds up in the lead.

UPDATE IV: Bad news – with 78% reporting, union-tool Kloppenberg had gone in to the lead by 7,183.

UPDATE V: It gets worse – with 81% reporting, Klop’s lead now at 17,741. Unclear if any strong Prosser areas have yet to report…clearly a lot of Klop places just turned up.

UPDATE VI: Hot Air reports still a couple strong GOP counties to report.

UPDATE VII: Calling it for Kloppenberg; 84% reporting and she’s up by 35,000. A stinging rebuke to the GOP – but it took an all-out effort just to get a narrow win in an off-off year election. Meanwhile, of course, the GOP still does actually control the Wisconsin government. Uh, maybe not…88% reporting, Klop’s only up a bit more than 5k….90% reporting, Klop’s lead now 1,676

(Gotta admit, this is turning out to be quite exciting for a political junkie)

UPDATE VIII: As my mother would have put it in one of her more irreverent moments, “tighter than a nun’s corset”. 92% reporting, Prosser has a 591 vote lead.

UPDATE IX: 97% reporting, Prosser up 4,671.

UPDATE X: The reporting total has been stuck at 97% for a while; vote totals have gone up and Prosser still maintains a slight lead of 1,684. Clearly, this is going to a re-count.

Here’s what I like about this – the left went flat out after Prosser. They outspent the right by a huge amount and engaged in the most slanderous campaign imaginable (actually accusing Prosser of being in favor of pedophiles). The left brought in the troops and did all they could…meanwhile, the under-funded but genuinely grassroots right went toe to toe with the left in what is still a blue State and, at the very worst, fought them to a photo finish. This shows that there is no ground safe for the left…even in places where they have been dominant for generations, we can fight them. Come what may out of this election, I am highly encouraged by the prospects.

UPDATE XI: 98% in, Prosser up by 2,003 votes. I’d like to stay up and see it go to 100%, but I do have to work tomorrow. Night all!