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Breaking news tonight out of the great state of wisconsin, where polls closed approximately 21 minutes ago in an election that is consequential in its own right locally, but also serves as the very first test about how wisconsin feels about the huge national hullabaloo its governor caused. after weeks of protests and inventing political processes no one knew existed before, governor scott walker and his fellow republicans in wisconsin stripped union rights in that state, which happens to be the state where a lot of union rights in this country were born. we know how people in wisconsin and acr...

Presidential race-type numbers. in wisconsin, turnout is always a huge part of the game, because it is such a swing state. we're seeing high turnout in dane county, left-leaning, the home of the university of wisconsin and state capitol, a lot of public workers there, and waukesha county, the most populous that leans very republican. so those two counties are really key battlegrounds in this state to see which one turns out in higher numbers. milwaukee county is seeing turnout around 35% right now. and in some areas like fond du lac, they may keep the polls open later tonight, because there ar...

They're getting out. >> but why then on something like medicare would they be proceeding now? why would they choose to kill medicare now? they announced on the day the president announces he is running for re-election. they announce it right on the eve of this potential shutdown. why medicare? why now? >> i think there's a lot of different things going on here. but at its core, what we see is really just the fruition of now 25, 30 years of public discourse that the democrats have participated in. that says that government is bad. if you can remember the confusion that was occurring during the ...

Referendum on governor walker, and on this union policy. and now tonight they believe this really is anyone's race. it will be very a close race and it could be late tonight before we actually know who wins. >> we also have seen so much outside spending in this race. i saw some reporting today that suggested that this may be the most expensive state supreme court race in wisconsin history. i guess we'll have to wait for the final tally to really know that. but in terms of the conservative spending in particular, has that helped david prosser distance himself from the governor, or has that been...

Mural for their lobby, they tapped some federal funds for setting up that new headquarters. that's what paid for more than half the mural and a lot else besides at the new state department of labor hq. since the federal government only paid for that mural because it was supposed to be part of the new state department of labor hq, the governor ripped it down. it means that maine has got to pay the federal government back. because the state is no longer using that money for what they said they would use it for. so when governor lepage gets back from jamaica, one of the unopened pieces of mail on...