Live Thread: Wisconsin Senate Recalls - Six Republican Seats at Risk

[Jean S]

WISCONSIN SENATE RECALL ELECTIONS BY DISTRICT:

TUESDAY:

SENATE DISTRICT 2:

Republican incumbent: Senator Robert Cowles of Allouez. First elected to state Senate in April 1987 special election.

Democratic challenger: Nancy Nusbaum of De Pere, a former mayor of De Pere and Brown County executive.

SENATE DISTRICT 8:

Republican incumbent: Senator Alberta Darling of River Hills. First elected to the Senate in 1992.

Democratic challenger: Representative Sandy Pasch of Whitefish Bay. Elected to Assembly in 2008, reelected

2010.

SENATE DISTRICT 10:

Republican incumbent: Senator Sheila Harsdorf of River Falls. First elected to Senate in 2000.

Democratic challenger: Shelly Moore, a teacher from River Falls who has also served as teachers' union organizer.

SENATE DISTRICT 14:

Republican incumbent: Senator Luther Olsen of Ripon. First elected to Senate in 2004. Served in Assembly 1994 to 2004.

Democratic challenger: Representative Fred Clark of Baraboo. Elected to Assembly in 2008, reelected 2010.

SENATE DISTRICT 18:

Republican incumbent: Senator Randy Hopper of Fond du Lac. Elected to Senate in 2008 by 163 votes over Jessica King.

Democratic challenger: Jessica King, an attorney in private practice from Oshkosh, born and raised in Fond du Lac.

SENATE DISTRICT 32:

Republican incumbent: Senator Dan Kapanke of La Crosse, First elected to Senate in 2004.

Democratic challenger: Representative Jennifer Shilling of La Crosse. Elected to Assembly since 2000.

AP results link

[Hunton Peck]

The MJS has called it for Cowles (R) in the 2d.

[newzjunkey]

Seems like a good call. Cowles run unopposed and got 99% of the vote last time.

Hopper, Darling & Kapake were those at greatest risk.

[Royal Wulff]

What? She was up huge! Must be a mistake.

[NYpeanut]

bump

[Brilliant]

They pulled out all of the stops, spent boatloads of money, got their union thugs out, and their people to the polls, but it looks like they may be lucky to win one race.

[ohioWfan]

PRAY THAT GOD WILL DEFEAT THE FORCES OF SATAN TONIGHT, PERSONIFIED BY THE DEMORAT PARTY & UNION THUGS.

Amen and AMEN!!

[Ballygrl]

Twitter Update:

@kevinbinversie Kevin Binversie Pasch is up. Looks like Shorewood came in. Don't panic folks. Darling will likely win. #WIRecall

[mwl8787]

LOL!

[MediaMole]

Most of those votes were from Shorewood. It’s probably the most liberal community and Pasch got almost 74 percent of the vote.

http://villageofshorewood.org/vertical/Sites/%7B5230848F-4209-4497-9E80-89EC90BA64AE%7D/uploads/Results_spreadsheet(1).pdf

[muawiyah]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2011/by_county/WI_Page_0809.html?SITE=AP&SECTION=POLITICS AP Calls it For Cowles (R) ~ in short THE LEFT CAVES.

[11th_VA]

Yep - it's official:

State Senate - District 2 - General August 09, 2011 - 09:13PM CT Wisconsin - 73 of 90 Precincts Reporting - 81%

Cowles , Robert (i) GOP 18,718 58%

Nusbaum , Nancy Dem 13,292 42%

[MestaMachine]

I have been waiting, waiting, waiting ALL day for the WI polls to close. My fingertips are numb from chewing my fingernails to the nubbins. IF we pull this one off, I might bust my skull from hitting the ceiling!!!

[Nonsense Unlimited]

It even reaches a point when the unreporting precincts can’t make up the difference.
Maybe I’m just old school and want to see the final numbers after everyone votes before I start making comments about who won or lost.

Taking so long? Some precincts in the sticks still don’t have internet and it’s a miracle we have electricity. ;)
The smoke signals are tough to read because of the cloud cover tonight.

[luvie]

I hate when they call them early...shades of FL, 2000, so you might have a long night! Maybe you can sleep in tomorrow morning. LOL!

I soooo hope this goes well. I love the sound of libtard heads exploding in the morning! :)

[Tex-Con-Man]

Wow - that was a pretty big fall.

[GR_Jr.]

I will go on record an say the we win 5 of the 6. Huge for us.

Sadly I think Kapanke is toast. From what I read his district is top heavy with union households. But you have to respect the man for sticking to his guns in the face of union members and Fascist tyranny.

[MNlurker]

Darling campaign saying they are way outperforming forecasts for here in Whitefish Bay. That would be huge.

Also note that Pasch crushed Darling in her hometown of Shorewood, but garnered 300 less votes than Barrett did during the governor race.

[Hunton Peck]

This is the most vulnerable, trending ‘ratward:

State Senate - District 32 - General
August 09, 2011 - 09:13PM CT
Wisconsin - 44 of 119 Precincts Reporting - 37%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Shilling , Jennifer Dem 6,039 53%
Kapanke , Dan (i) GOP 5,256 47%

[IMissPresidentReagan]

Thanks for that information. :) I know nothing, obviously, but the numbers I’m reading. This is why I love FR.

[casinva]

State Senate - District 2 - General
August 09, 2011 - 09:16PM CT
Wisconsin - 73 of 90 Precincts Reporting - 81%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Cowles , Robert (i) GOP 18,718 58%
Nusbaum , Nancy Dem 13,292 42%

State Senate - District 8 - General
August 09, 2011 - 09:16PM CT
Wisconsin - 15 of 82 Precincts Reporting - 18%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Pasch , Sandra Dem 8,848 57%
Darling , Alberta (i) GOP 6,741 43%

State Senate - District 10 - General
August 09, 2011 - 09:16PM CT
Wisconsin - 82 of 114 Precincts Reporting - 72%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Harsdorf , Sheila (i) GOP 23,125 58%
Moore , Shelly Dem 16,499 42%

State Senate - District 14 - General
August 09, 2011 - 09:16PM CT
Wisconsin - 91 of 126 Precincts Reporting - 72%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Olsen , Luther (i) GOP 16,161 55%
Clark , Fred Dem 13,276 45%

State Senate - District 18 - General
August 09, 2011 - 09:16PM CT
Wisconsin - 16 of 108 Precincts Reporting - 15%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Hopper , Randy (i) GOP 5,794 53%
King , Jessica Dem 5,229 47%

State Senate - District 32 - General
August 09, 2011 - 09:16PM CT
Wisconsin - 51 of 119 Precincts Reporting - 43%
Name Party Votes Vote %
Shilling , Jennifer Dem 7,127 54%
Kapanke , Dan (i) GOP 6,135 46%