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Supreme court justice get so ugly? >> for two reasons. one, because the winner is supposed to be the swing vote on a court that very soon judges the validity of scott walker's collective bargaining law. second, for better or worse, this race has become a proxy for scott walker himself and for that plau in particular. we're joined by john nicholls live from madison, wisconsin. he is the soerpted editor of "the times." you've been in madison all day. tell us what's happening. you probably can call this race by now. i know polls haven't closed yet, but you can tell us who won, right? >> i wish i ...

Considerable union membership and a union history, and his opponent, chris ably, who is a political newcomer, has really tried to link stone and that vote to scott walker in hopes of garnering that union support and really sort of energizing that effort to get people out to the polls. >> were you or anybody else covering this race for wtmj? was anybody able to really determine anything, i guess, anecdotally important about turnout in this race? seeing any kind of either anti scott walker effect, or response to the big spending effect? is there any evidence of larger turnout than you would norm...

Generally very well attended. if you get 25% turnout, that's considered a victory in a spring election. today, we are seeing areas with 45, 50% turnout. almost governor's race or 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 dain county, left-leaning, the home of the university of wisconsin and state capitol, a lot of public workers there, and walk shaw county, the most populus that leans very republican. so those two counties are really key ballots grounds in this state to see which one t...

However, clearly there are two parties in this election. but jeff stone is a republican member of the state assembly. he did vote for that walker bill, which stripped public unions of most of their collective bargaining rights, and that has certainly been used against him. milwaukee does have a considerable union membership and a union history, and his opponent, chris ably, who is a political newcomer, has really tried to link stone and that vote to scott walker in hopes of garnering that union support and really sort of energizing that effort to get people out to the polls. >> were you or any...

Opponent, chris ably, who is a political newcomer, has really tried to link stone and that vote to scott walker in hopes of garnering that union support and really sort of energizing that effort to get people out to the polls. >> were you or anybody else covering this race for wtmj? was anybody able to really determine anything, i guess, anecdotally important about turnout in this race? seeing any kind of either anti scott walker effect, or response to the big spending effect? is there any evidence of larger turnout than you would normally expect on either side for this kind of a local spring ...