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JoAnne Kloppenburg declared victory yesterday in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, based on the AP’s vote total, but the numbers have been adjusted for various reasons, pushing David Prosser back in the lead during the day. As I was writing this post, Kloppenburg regained the lead by a tiny margin. And we haven’t even gotten to the inevitable recount.
UPDATE: Prosser is now in the lead by over 7000 votes, which had been lost due to a clerical error in Waukesha (as improbable as it may seem, this does appear to have been an honest mistake). Interestingly, based on what Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board has said, this may mean that Prosser’s lead is outside the margin where Kloppenburg is entitled to have the state pay for a recount (or if it’s not outside that margin, it’s very close).
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jharp| 4.7.11 @ 5:33PM
Cheaters.
Hanover| 4.7.11 @ 5:50PM
GAME OVER!!
Prosser just picked up 7,000 votes in Waukesha County!
Al Adab| 4.7.11 @ 6:01PM
Anyone remember Al Franken? They just kept counting until they "found" enough votes to make the election turn out "the right way". That is,
Left wins. It is the only correct result. Remember, to The Left, voters are ignorant masses unless properly educated.
Floyd Looney | 4.7.11 @ 6:05PM
I am sure "they" will "find" a bag of ballots in a closet somewhere.
Shannon| 4.7.11 @ 6:08PM
Stop being Gloomy Gusses, guys. You bore.
beebop| 4.7.11 @ 6:12PM
They simply refuse to accept the voice of the people -- you know ... those who vote against their own interests and all. Thank God I am a FORMER democrat.
Lloyd| 4.7.11 @ 6:18PM
I have more sympathy for Florida and Minnesota election officials, now that I see Wisconsin screwing up the counting in 2011. Not a lot of sympathy, but more than I did.
The One Who Runs Like a Duck| 4.7.11 @ 7:07PM
We're shutting down the government, gayharp. Wow. We pulled out the stops in an off year election. Usually the teacher's union alone would dominate. We cheated our butts off as usual and we are still going to lose. It is over gayharp. The party is definitely over. You and me are part of a group that is only 20% of the country and it is showing. We can't even win things in states that were very favorable under the absolute best of conditions. I can't tell you how bad I feel. I'll be hitting the links this weekend. Got to get ready for the eventual battle with Boehner. I think you need to swear more and make more references to your homosexuality. That is a winning issue. Demonstrate how hip you are by referring to all kinds of disgusting gay practices. That is a winning tack. Imagine Chevy Volts being delivered by high speed rail to rich Democrats, baby. I'll be trying to win back the independents by keeping Gitmo going and maybe even personally conducting harsh interrogations. I never thought of this before but water boarding can be done totally with renewable resources. We are also installing wind turbines at Gitmo so those detainees will never get a good night sleep again. Libyan oil will soon be ours, baby.
Tina B| 4.7.11 @ 7:58PM
I am tryng so hard not to laugh. ;-)
Nick| 4.7.11 @ 8:10PM
Everybody all together now:
"THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE !!!!"
You stinking, cheating bleeding heart liberals!
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!
ggoblue| 4.7.11 @ 8:30PM
hahahahahaha "declared victory" ...... i wonder how they like the al franken treatment???????????????
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 4.7.11 @ 9:23PM
I'm glad this mistake happened, even though I'm not sure it was an unintentional mistake? I think the Republicans might have held these votes back, just in case some votes where mysteriously found in a conveniently "misplaced" polling machine, that ended up in somebody's trunk (by mistake of course) in a Democratically controlled district. It looks like the Republicans are actually starting to learn some of the Left's Playbook, and the Liberal Commies just can't stand it. Hey Commies, Alinsky this!!
Where's my Reply To This button? I want my Reply To This Button back!! It sucks without it, almost as bad as the Democratic Party sucks!!
GreatOne| 4.7.11 @ 10:02PM
Leave 2008 Coleman-Franken out of your discussions about stolen elections. I'm sick and tired of this canard continuing to be brought up (as opposed to Washington governor's race or South Dakota senate race). What happened is very simple: during the campaign and into the recount, Coleman's camp failed to identify who their absentee voters were; Franken's camp was all over it. So when the Minneseota Supreme Court, without any legal authority whatsoever, authorized both camps to review the contested absentee ballots together and see which ones they mutually agreed were acceptable, Franken's camp knew which counties to be very lenient in, and which counties to be very obtuse. Franken's camp simply outworked and outsmarte the idiot lawyers/campaign staffers in Coleman's camp.
NOTHING WAS STOLEN! We simply handed them the victory.
The Bruce| 4.14.11 @ 2:49AM
Whoa, you mean Franken was selected, not elected? That phrase sounds eerily familiar.
Hanover| 4.7.11 @ 10:22PM
Not this time! BWHAAHAAAHAA!!!
Mitch Angoop| 4.7.11 @ 11:08PM
The most discouraging/encouraging (Pick one) thing about this is that everybody in the Country now knows that democrats will do anything; lie, cheat, steal, kill, etc... to win. Finally a significant majority of real Americans of both parties understand that a small cadre of liberal/democrat/socialist 'elitists' are at the core of the most destructive series of events to strike at our political foundations since the Civil War era.
If these criminals have their way, only two outcomes will be possible: Class and civil war as an insurrection by an electorate fed up with them; or, surrender to them and their evil agenda. Off with their heads!
Paul McGrath| 4.8.11 @ 12:36AM
I only learned today--I forget where--that in Wisconsin, one can register to vote after only proving residence for TEN DAYS! Good grief! Is it possible that there were some worthy citizens of Illinois and Michigan and Minnesota and Ohio and Iowa who decided to--legally--take up residence in Wisconsin for a couple of weeks after Walker's public employee union reform bill was passed? Yeah, I guess so!
When you poke a wild animal with a stick, you maybe ought to think about how it's going to react.
Hindsight is 20/20, but the Republicans in Wisconsin should have, 1. Waited until Prosser's re-election had occured, and, 2. Reformed voter registration laws, before taking a vote on public employee union reform.
Again, hindsight is 20/20, but I for one saw the lawsuit coming a mile away.
We have to play smart.
jomo2009| 4.8.11 @ 1:07AM
Hey, jharp:
You are soooo stupid!
nik | 4.8.11 @ 4:17AM
haha, it is interesting
Pelligrino| 4.8.11 @ 4:34AM
Folks, I'm not rejoicing, even if Prosser prevails in Wisconsin. Is he better than the alternative? Probably. But he sure seems a far cry from the acumen and true wisdom I would expect from a man of his seasoned age.
The bigger issue is that this is a squeaker vote margin AND that we all know that 2 - 8,000 of these Wisconsin votes cast just 2 days ago are probably fraudulent.
I'm not rejoicing until I see the fraud voters and their enablers on felony charges, fined, imprisoned, and barred from voting ever again.
Where is the justice?
We need to see ACORN, SEIU, union members, union bosses, and many others headed to jail with stiff penalties AND no chance to ever vote -- ever again.
I want every newspaper in every town to run the names and photographs of those who engage in voter fraud.
Until I see that, we're just playing paddycakes.
agi| 4.8.11 @ 6:18AM
very funny, you can like it .......... ha.ha.ha
martin j smith| 4.8.11 @ 7:42AM
They made a clerical error. I wonder how this was found out and then corrected. I thin the "error" should be investigated and lets see what other " errors" are found. And we send Jimmy Cater to monitor elections abroad. Good G-D lets retire this guy. We need our own monitors for self preservation.
George S| 4.8.11 @ 9:22AM
Why should we care who wins this race; the law is the law, isn't it? Think about it: we are cheering super-legislators instead of impartial jurists. If voting for representatives has been diluted and their function now subservient to the judiciary, then we have a politburo instead of a republic. There is not a lot to cheer about, this is downright frightening that elections can be overturned by the political whims of a single law school graduate with political connections..
jharp| 4.8.11 @ 9:47AM
"(as improbable as it may seem, this does appear to have been an honest mistake)"
I am sure you'd be saying the say thing had they "found" 7,000 democratic votes. Right?
God you people are stupid.
Pete| 4.8.11 @ 9:53AM
This may have been a mistake, but even if it was, Republican election officials countrywide should take note because it is brilliant strategy. By not reporting that city's vote count, it caused the Dems to underplay their fraud hand. Think about that. They always do just enough to steal an election overnight. Thinking the target was set, they magically came up with the votes to win by a nose (after Dem precincts had all already reported, curiously) like they always do. And then the hammer drops and the fraud would be too obvious now to come up with 7K votes. Perfect strategy. Just beautiful, in fact.
Truth to Power| 4.8.11 @ 9:58AM
The judicial oligarchy already existed and the left has used it to achieve much of their evil. In Wisconsin that may not happen. The laws enacted by the legislature might actually stand. That is good news. I have really grown to dislike "woe is me" conservatives. They think that their only purpose is to be the first one to predict the end of the world. Cynicism is not a virtue. When somebody constantly uses the ideal to beat the good then they are no longer capable of making distinctions and are of no use.
The One Who Runs Like A Duck| 4.8.11 @ 10:18AM
The cheated us, gayharp. The astroturf got out the vote better than we did. Sure we cheated but we can't get it done anymore. You and me have turned Wisconsin into some kind of Republican stronghold. Gosh, how do you say, "We progressives are stupid". You wouldn't expect that out of people who think that the Chevy Volt and wind farms will replace our energy infrastructure. Or that by coining phrases such as "man caused disasters" and "overseas contingency operations" would make maniacal Islamic terrorists reconsider what they were doing. Or thinking that all our wealth is somehow produced by the government instead of realizing that the government lives off the productivity of the American people. Or that adding one more ponzi scheme would fix the ponzi schemes that we invented before. Or that building high speed rail that no one wants is going to bring our economy back. You know gayharp, we progressives are stupid. Well I am on vacation and already shot an 80 this morning. Tomorrow I will play a whole round, there was only time for nine this morning. While I am having fun I want you to be thankful for Libya, Gitmo and military tribunals. Water boarding is carbon neutral, baby.
LarryK| 4.8.11 @ 11:22AM
jharp
Pot - Kettle
jharp| 4.8.11 @ 12:08PM
LarryK = Dumbass
The One Who Runs Like A Duck| 4.8.11 @ 12:20PM
You're cooking with gas gayharp. This is what I am talking about. Please, even use more profanities. When you talk dirty and show how hip you are by your intimate knowledge of homosexual acts you are at your best. I do not subscribe to the theory that you are raising morale of the Right by your presence. Take a Chevy Volt to Gitmo and take part in a carbon neutral water boarding, baby.
Momma Harp| 4.8.11 @ 12:30PM
Junior is takin' these election numbers hard.
He's out in the back laying on the ground in a catatonic state, in the fetal position, sucking his thumb.
He's quite emotional.
Jo| 4.8.11 @ 12:50PM
C'mon now, Momma; "catatonic state" is the antithesis of "emotional." Which is it?
Perhaps you mean Harp is schizoid.
Keep that straitjacket handy.
Brubaker| 4.8.11 @ 1:10PM
I'm elated that Prosser is now leading, but I won't be celebrating until the results are certified.
Democrats and their union thugs have repeatedly demonstrated their willingness to do anything in order to win, and may yet have a surprise or two waiting to be sprung.
Momma Harp| 4.8.11 @ 1:16PM
Talk to Junior's Court Appointed Prison Psychiatrist Dr. Vinnie Boombatz
He says that's a Catatonic Stupor State, not to be confused with Junior's Catatonic Excitement States.
I think Dr. Boombatz says Junior's Schizophrenic with a marked propensity towards procrastination & sloth, but don't hold me to it.
We just call Junior "Nuts ".
Jo| 4.8.11 @ 1:30PM
I believe there's a strong Tourette's syndrome factor here, too. You poor thing.
"Dr. Vinnie Boombatz" LMAO!!
Is it true the good Doctor works with the criminally insane?
LarryK| 4.8.11 @ 2:39PM
jharp
Can you form a coherent thought? The Pot - Kettle is a statement of similarities not of equality.
Your postscript "God you people are stupid." is a similarity of you (Pot) calling others (Kettle) stupid. The commonality is "stupid". At this time I want to apologize to all the Kettles on the forum for stating you have any similarity to jharp. After careful consideration, no one, I repeat, NO ONE can be as stupid as jharp. Again, Kettles, please accept my profound apology.
Now your statement "LarryK=dumbass" is a statement of equality. You being a Liberal have a profound and perfect understanding of the principle of equality. To call someone a dumbass, you require an erudite understanding of that word, meaning that you have or show knowledge that is gained by possessing that which you proclaim. I accept you equality in that statement "LarryK=dumbass" because I know without equivocation that you, being the perfect dumbass, can see the dumbass, albeit ever so small, in others, and it is your God given right, No your God given duty to point out all the dumbasses in this country, no in the world.
First let's start with VP Joe Biden who said, "We need to spend more money to keep from going bankrupt.". Dumbass?
Next Nancy Pelosi, "We need to pass the bill to find out what's in it." Dumbass?
Joe Biden, "I'm second in line to succeed the President.". Dumbass?
Barack Obama, "Yes we can!" Dumbass?
"We're not going to baby sit a civil war." Barack Obama quote spoken on NBC's Today Show on January 11, 2007 Dumbass?
I've now been in 57 states — I think one left to go." Barack Obama —at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon, May 9, 2008 Dumbass?
And finally
President Barack Obama's mispronunciation of the word "corpsman" in praising American military personnel at the National Prayer Breakfast.
President Obama pronounced "corpsman" as "corpse man" twice in the same address.
Dumbass?
Come on jharp. Man up and use those powers of intellect and proclaim your fellow travelers Dumbasses. You can do it! I have faith in your integrity and honesty. Oh wait, Never-mind. You are a liberal and to a liberal Truth, Honesty, Integrity, Justice and the American Way do not exist in your world.
Paul McGrath| 4.8.11 @ 4:15PM
Oh, I just love dumbass statements! They are fun and really easy. In fact, I even made one up!
"Hi, my name is jharp, and I am a reasonable and thoughtful person. People listen to me because I am so respectful of them."
The Bruce| 4.14.11 @ 2:57AM
While Minnesota is in contention on the matter, other States have successfully passed similar laws this year (without judicial interference) concerning collective bargaining.
Hey, if one State loses the battle so that 4 or 5 may be saved, I'll take it. Minnesota can get a rematch later, if necessary. It'll be a pretty easy argument to make when they actually go bankrupt.