CUT IT OUT ALREADY!!
She WON! The votes have been counted. All precincts are in. Even if she's only ONE vote ahead of Prosser-- she WON, damnit!! That's what majority vote IS. Now with the Rs legal counsel saying they can still pull a rabbit out of a hat, the media feeds on this crap like cats on catnip.
Today, AFTER the race was called, I heard NPR say that Kloppenberg "has the lead" by a few hundred votes. What kind of crap is that?
See this WaPo article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/why-the-lefts-showing-in-wisconsin-supreme-court-race-is-a-big-deal/2011/03/03/AF9GUvpC_blog.html_______________________
(story filed at 1:51pm TODAY)
Why the left’s showing in Wisconsin Supreme Court race is a big dealBy Greg Sargent
In the nationally-watched Wisconsin state Supreme Court race, liberal challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg has
edged ahead of conservative sitting justice David Prosser by just over 200 votes.
We still don’t know who is going to win, and we may not know for some time to come. But
even if Kloppenburg loses, labor strategists argue, this will have constituted a victory for unions and Dems — proof of Scott Walker’s continuing toxicity, and of the staying power of the grassroots energy he unleashed. They’re right.
<snip>
Sure, GOPers will be able to crow
if they win, but this is still mostly nonsense. Here’s why....
(emphasis is mine)
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In this article, the headline is the left has made a "showing," and it goes on to say we "don’t know who is going to win." Hogwash!! Now, they might be looking ahead to the recount, but that's not what they said about W in Florida in 2000. They didn't surmise, as this article does in the second paragraph, "even if (Bush) loses..." That would be heresy! What we heard was Bush WON that race and Sore/Loserman couldn't accept reality and was calling for a recount.
Please don't let this Wisconsin race be framed this way. Even Rachel tweeted the above article but didn't call them on this.
Kloppenberg WON. Prosser hasn't even called for a recall yet as far as I know; he's done some posturing through legal counsel. Let's not do the other side's bidding by accepting their frames.