Prosser Up 7,381 Votes. Really.
Well, this changes everything. Stephen Hayes at the Weekly Standard reports:
Supreme Court justice David Prosser has picked up more than 7,381 votes in Waukesha County, a conservative county outside of Milwaukee, as part of the statewide canvass following the election for Supreme Court on Tuesday. The total gives Prosser a comfortable lead as the canvass continues Friday.
It was a human reporting error where zero votes were recorded for Brookfield. In actuality, some 14,000 votes were cast in Brookfield and it went 70 percent for Prosser. While there's apparently little controversy over whether this was, in fact, a basic human error ... the woman who failed to properly record the ballots is a Republican operative.
The New York Times left-leaning polling guru Nate Silver tweets:
So I don't think there's any conspiracy here ... Waukesha's vote total had been slightly lower than you might expect.
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Sep '10
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I listened to the press conference. The Democrat representative on the canvassing board confirmed that the new count is legit.
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Wow! Awesome!
May '10
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Oh man, does this mean we've lost our right to complain whenever mysterious votes show up? A whole town went missing.
I remember watching the returns, and suddenly the remaining precincts of Waukesha were listed as in, with no change in the totals. Ann Althouse was scratching her head. Now it makes sense.
The unions in Wisconsin (Wisconsin!) took their best shot, and they have lost. The teachers get a big fat increase in take-home pay, the union bosses will have to move their protection racket to another state, and little CGI butterflies are zippedee-aying around the room, though that could be the meds.
I shall now go forward to gloat, gloatingly, with much gloatitude.
Nov '10
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MBF, you were right all along last night. Good reporting!
Jul '10
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A new thriller novel to be written: One of Our Towns Is Missing! Nice to see that even in the age of high technology simple human error can still shape major events.
Dec '10
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They won't have to go very far. I bet most of them have relatives and friends living in Cook County.
May '10
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Perfect coda to our late-night thread Tuesday. Way to go Waukesha--the Velveeta's in the mail.
Aug '10
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Who said that " if it ain't close, they can't cheat !" ? Yea to the nth degree . How many of us sent $$ to Wisconsin ? I did ,might pay off. Hey- what's a twenty ?
Jul '10
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Assuming - assuming - that this holds up and Prosser wins, I'm trying to process the meaning of this election.
Turnout was enormous. And one can assume that somewhere close to 100% of state employees turned out. Which means, for Prosser to win, something had to motivate voters with a far less direct personal economic stake to turn out in far larger numbers than they might have heretofore.
Does that mean that normally apathetic voters have finally awoken to what's really at stake? Or does it mean that the behavior of Wisconsin public employees and Democrat politicians in recent weeks were so disgusting that people got off their couches to assert themselves?
Probably both. And more.
I'll say one thing: I wouldn't want to play poker with Scott Walker.
Oct '10
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I'll bet those responsible are the same space aliens who kidnapped Margaret Thatcher and Javier Perez de Cuellar.
Jul '10
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That would be Hugh Hewitt.
Jun '10
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I'm sure Kloppenburg will go ahead and pay for a recount anyway. She likes her verdicts arrived at in advance of the trial, and this wasn't the verdict she planned.
Oct '10
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This election has been an effective Stalingrad for the labor unions. That they can't win a low-turnout election in the historical heart of progressivism does not bode well for their chances in more conservative states.
Moreover, this is vindication for the strong, aggressive style of leadership exemplified by Scott Walker, John Kasich, and Rick Perry. I hope House Republican leaders like John Boehner and Eric Cantor learn the right lesson from this and act on the mandate given to them last November. Forget the polls, focus on principles.
Mar '11
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Mollie Hemingway, Ed.:
The New York Times left-leaning polling guru Nate Silver tweets:
"Slightly lower," in this case, meaning "completely nonexistent."
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Ignore the above comment. I misread the article and thought the entire county was unreported, not just one town.
Edited on Apr 7, 2011 at 6:18pmMar '11
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Come on, everybody: "This is what dem-oc-racy looks like!" (Wait, where's my kettle drum?)
Oct '10
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We'll need some paper-mache heads too.
May '10
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Since Dane county already posted Soviet style results, 90% turnout with 97 % for the Borg, itmakes it hard for them to manufacture enough Ghost Votes to steal this one....
Sep '10
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Show me what democracy looks like!
I live in a ward that went 3:1 against Walker last fall, and probably even steeper against Prosser. It's full of the kind of people that put "Coexist" bumper stickers on their cars. Lots of UW-Milwaukee employees around here.
I haven't stopped smiling since I heard the news about the Brookfield ballots.
Aug '10
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Yeah HH !
May '10
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I got the world on a string, sittin on a rainbow. Haven't felt this good since November, when Peter gave us free rein to gloat. Usually take Peter as the benchmark of gentlemanly decorum, and then guiltily move the boundary-stones. But I think he'd approve of a little swagger here, after all that crap we took from these people.