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Until she has the news conference. this is the waukesha county clerk. so i think given that, given the fact that she used to work for david prosser a decade before and she had irregularities brought up before her county board, that were never corrected, given that she had access to this computer that no one else did, i think all of these things, and the way it turned the election, putting it a percentage point away, where if there is a recount, it s not going to be paid for by the state but would have to be paid for by kloppenberg s campaign, all of these things need to be investigated fully. she had access to a computer that nobody else had any oversight with at all so she was solely in charge of those votes. that is a new one on me. i hadn t heard that. john nichols of the nation what chance do you think we have of the attorney general getting involved in this? let s be honest. the department of justice is an ....
The up swing right now, ed. i think if you look at where the election was during the primary where prosser was up by 55% and kloppenberg only had 25%, and over that time we fought him to a standstill where before everyone knew who prosser was. he was an 11-year incumbent speaker of the assembly where kloppenberg was a complete unknown. we fought him to a standstill where it was within 1% and may end up winning. it should be pointed out that a number of democrats won on the local level as well as far as city elections and county elections. good to have you with us tonight. wisconsin state senator chris larsen and john nichols, washington correspondent of the nation thank you. it s easy to scare people into thinking china is going to overtake the united states as the world s number one super power but there is one area in which we beat china by a long shot. that s next. ....
Election, we thought it was pretty close to settled and all of a sudden a full day later these votes turn up and she doesn t mention it to anybody until she has the news conference. this is the waukesha county clerk. so i think given that, given the fact that she used to work for david prosser a decade before and she had irregularities brought up before her county board, that were never corrected, given that she had access to this computer that no one else did, i think all of these things, and the way it turned the election, putting it a percentage point away, where if there is a recount, it s not going to be paid for by the state but would have to be paid for by kloppenberg s campaign, all of these things need to be investigated fully. she had access to a computer that nobody else had any oversight with at all so she was solely in charge of those votes. that is a new one on me. i hadn t heard that. john nichols of the nation what chance do you think we have of the attorney general ....
Common sense complement to both the new walker legislation and the legislature. what does that mean? well, that particular statement was issued i never saw that statement. that was wisconsin republican supreme court justice david prosser back in january. his re-election campaign was billing him as a rubber stamp for scott walker. tonight as the news continues to roll in from wisconsin with 42% of the vote in the man you just saw on that tape, republican david prosser, is ahead of challenger joann kloppenberg 51 to 49%. make no mistake this is a referendum on governor walker s radical agenda to end collective bargaining rights for middle class in that state. the polls closed in wisconsin at 8:00 p.m. central standard time tonight. reports are that the turnout was record. in appleton, green bay, madison, ....
Ironically wisconsin and yet his entire budget is based on a tax cut for the rich paid for by the middle class and the poor. i cannot believe that this is where america wants to go. it s a fight that we got to look forward to because liberals, we are on the correct side of the issue here. we re better than this. but this the budget that they have wanted for more than a decade. this is what they wanted when bush was in but of course they couldn t deliver the mail because some democrats showed up, strong against it. the democrats need to show up strong this time around. the associated press now reporting at this hour 32% of the vote in wisconsin as we continue to follow wisconsin state supreme court vote. david prosser, the incumbent republican with 50%, joann kloppenberg with 50%. john nichols is at the kloppenberg headquarters for the latest. it s heavy turnout tonight, no doubt about it. ....