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The results are not looking good for most of the Dems. Darn! I knew they should have sent some more buses. Where are the New Black Panthers when you need them?

Yes you can't!

How could the Dems lose Wisconsin? Did they call everyone STUPID enough, I don't get it, that's a winning formula according to Bill Mahr.

What are you guys up to in here? Pretending that what ToT and Shrek think is important, really is? OK, back to your mutual admiration club.

Did you just call them Stupid?

Shoot it's a race now!

State Senate - District 10 - General
August 09, 2011 - 09:32PM CT
Wisconsin - 87 of 114 Precincts Reporting - 76%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Harsdorf , Sheila (i) GOP 23,842 58%
Moore , Shelly Dem 17,070 42%

Womp!

State Senate - District 2 - General
August 09, 2011 - 09:32PM CT
Wisconsin - 77 of 90 Precincts Reporting - 86%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Cowles , Robert (i) GOP 19,723 58%
Nusbaum , Nancy Dem 14,119 42%

Womp!

State Senate - District 8 - General
August 09, 2011 - 09:32PM CT
Wisconsin - 15 of 82 Precincts Reporting - 18%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Pasch , Sandra Dem 8,848 57%
Darling , Alberta (i) GOP 6,741 43%

Womp!

August 09, 2011 - 09:32PM CT
Wisconsin - 108 of 126 Precincts Reporting - 86%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Olsen , Luther (i) GOP 20,632 54%
Clark , Fred Dem 17,702 46%

Womp!

State Senate - District 18 - General
August 09, 2011 - 09:32PM CT
Wisconsin - 21 of 108 Precincts Reporting - 19%
Name Party Votes Vote %
King , Jessica Dem 7,464 50%
Hopper , Randy (i) GOP 7,368 50%

That's any man's race!

State Senate - District 32 - General
August 09, 2011 - 09:32PM CT
Wisconsin - 59 of 119 Precincts Reporting - 50%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Shilling , Jennifer Dem 11,353 53%
Kapanke , Dan (i) GOP 9,968 47%

District 32 is on the move!

Stay tuned for somber live footage from the losers campaign headquarters.

The race is now officially split: 3 dems in the lead, and 3 Repubs in the lead. One Republican who is behind is notorious Scott Walker henchman Alberta Darling, who is the Dems' #1 target (after Scott Walker of course).

As long as they successfully recall at least 3, it's a major victory. Then there's just the question of next weeks attempted recalls of democrats.

There was already a recall election for one Dem and he won. So the Republicans are going to have a very tough fight.

http://www.isthmus.com/daily/article.php?article=34324

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/08/the-day-of-reckoning-in-wisconsin-recall-fight/243273/

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/reading-the-wisconsin-recall-vote/

"On the other hand, Mr. Walker carried the six districts on Tuesday’s recall ballot by an average of 13 percentage points in 2010 — better than his statewide margin of 6 percentage points. If Democrats were to split the vote across these districts about evenly, that would be a reasonably troubling sign for Mr. Walker, however many of the seats Democrats actually win."

In your face Walker !

Oh, and by the way, Walker ?

THANK YOU !!!

Scott Walker must be really scared right now since next year he gets his own recall election too. The only question is whether Walker's recall election will be in January or in Nov. during the prediential election.

Once again the 50/50 rule prevails.
I think the Left and Right at any time have 50 percent of the people believing the cart loads of bullshit, they feed them. Then every election those same 50% of the people are disgusted and fed up and switch sides.

Oh well at least they can't hurt each other. Which is the evolutionary benefit that developed to protect parties from getting to big and hurting them selves. It seems when there's a perfect balance they impede each other and inhibit stupidity from prevailing.

Wisconsin will be a safer place now.

And if Dems win, Fox News will be whining that Dems stole the election all day tomorrow. Gotta watch out for all those imaginary buses with voters from Chicago on them.

JUST IN: AP declares Democrat Jennifer Shilling the winner. So far 3 Repubs won and 1 Dem won.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/09/wisconsin-recall-election-results_n_922826.html?ir=Chicago

Were still waiting for the county with the crazy clerk who does not know how to count votes to report.

I noticed that Red State became very quiet after the Dems started to pull ahead. I take it the Repubs are not that thrilled tonight.

C'mon district 18 !

District 8 is becoming more of a nail biter too

District 8 is only teetering on the win.

It's only one branch. They aren't going to be able to undo much anyway.

It's sends a nice little message though.

I'm afraid that right about now some behind the scenes agents for the Koch brothers are trying to find someone in district 8 to bribe. Maybe come up with some loose chad or something.

marcus says

I'm afraid that right about now some behind the scenes agents for the Koch brothers are trying to find someone in district 8 to bribe. Maybe come up with some loose chad or something.

You should consider that union employees are given time to go vote, while non union workers do have to take time off and go to work the next day.

With all the races being close by 1 or 2% that's a huge competitive advantage.

marcus says

It's sends a nice little message though.

Dow futures down 19...

Yeah, I guess the rally might not have been so much about this vote. I do think that the smart money will see it as a positive though, for our government. And our dysfunctional government is a big part of why the market has been down so much in the past week.

Oops Darling is the GOP candidate. Looks bad. Very bad.

Yawn wish I could work up a damn about this but for some reason Wisconsin puts me to., zzzzzzzzzzzz

Yawn wish I could work up a damn about this but for some reason Wisconsin puts me to., zzzzzzzzzzzz

Meh. The usual. Actual progress putting progressives to sleep.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

GOP kept 4 seats, people are really ticked off at government union corruption.

I thought the Democrats had the momentum to take control of the Senate last night. However, they did not. The GOP won 4 of 6 races with two more Democrats up for recalls in a few weeks.

This is yet another major loss for the Democrats. Perhaps the arranged marriage of the public sector cartel and Democrats/Rockefeller Repbulicans is actually bleeding a slow death.

Meh recalls inherently an uphill battle what's the odds?

wtfcapinv says

This is yet another major loss for the Democrats

This is not a loss. They replaced two sitting Republican senators, with democrats, and they did well enough in these extremely republican dominated districts to go forward with a recall of the governor.

It's a clear victory as far as I'm concerned, but not as much as I was hoping for.

Vicente says

Meh recalls inherently an uphill battle what's the odds?

“Eagles are dandified vultures” - Teddy Roosevelt

Recalls were extremely rare pre Al "MY aching ass" Gore made the concept a viable political strategy for the Losers.

How come the GOP never screams for a Recall?

We're watching you, Libs actions are cheesily transparent.
And are a detriment to our democratic process, and is turning the whole damn thing into a Kangaroo court.

Tenouncetrout says

How come the GOP never screams for a Recall?

We're watching you, Libs actions are cheesily transparent.
And are a detriment to our democratic process, and is turning the whole damn thing into a Kangaroo court.

Does CA governor ring a bell for you?

Before Results
marcus says

As long as they successfully recall at least 3, it's a major victory.

After Results

marcus says

This is not a loss. They replaced two sitting Republican senators, with democrats....It's a clear victory as far as I'm concerned...

Quit trying to smile and pretend everything is fine after getting punched in the gut. It's alright to be pissed about losing.

Contrary to popular belief, there are winners and losers.... In this instance, the losers are the Unions and winner is Walker. Painful I know - but it's the truth.

shrekgrinch says

And the Wisconsin taxpayer.

You mean some Wisconsin taxpayers. I have a crazy hunch some of the taxpayers voted the other way....so you really can't call them winners now, can you?

shrekgrinch says

Yes, I can. Because as taxpayers they win because the unions lost.

Ah, so you're saying even the taxpayers that hate Walker (and his anti-union politics) and voted to oust republicans are winners....they just don't know it.

Walker's union busting bill saves money? Really shrek? Because that is not what Scott Walker said:

KUCINICH: Let me ask you about some of the specific provisions in your proposals to strip collective bargaining rights. First, your proposal would require unions to hold annual votes to continue representing their own members. Can you please explain to me and members of this committee how much money this provision saves for your state budget?

WALKER: That and a number of other provisions we put in because if you’re going to ask, if you’re going to put in place a change like that, we wanted to make sure we protected the workers of our state, so they got value out of that. [...]

KUCINICH: Would you answer the question? How much money does it save, Governor?

WALKER: It doesn’t save any. [...]

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/04/14/158690/walker-admits-union-money/