More People Voted for WI Judge David Prosser Than For Mike Bloomberg
Yesterday's Wisconsin election will surely go to a recount, if the candidate with fewer votes requests it, which seems certain. What's more, the recount is free to the candidates (if not to the taxpayer, heh) if the margin is less than .5%, which, yes it easily is. At this time, David Prosser seems to have 835 more votes than JoAnne Kloppenburg, but there are still votes coming in, and it's anyone's race. Total votes cast, give or take? 1,465,563, with 736,878 going to Prosser at this time. That's pretty amazing, for a state with five and a half million people. For comparison? In the last New York City mayoral election, voter turnout was under 1.2 million, with a population of 8.1 million, with Mike Bloomberg receiving 585,466 votes. Though to be fair, about a third of New York City residents weren't born in the country, and are far less likely to be voters. (This used to be true of Wisconsin, but now they are all just descended from immigrants.) Also to be fair, most of the rest of New York City residents are felons and can't vote either.







Felons can vote in New York. Or, um, so I hear.
"This used to be true of Wisconsin"
Shhhh!
Kloppenburg has been ahead by a tiny margin for about an hour now. For my fellow obsessive Wisconsin election watchers, you can basically just refresh this page all day long.
JOINING YOU THERE!
Much of the east coast gaping at Wisconsin over the last couple months has been woefully ignorant of the incredibly important role that Wisconsin has played over the years in national politics and labor relations.
Not saying that YOU are guilty of this, Choire, because hey Evanston Township what what, just that the continued amazement of many east coast writers (again, NOT THIS ONE IN PARTICULAR) that Things Happen in the midwest is at turns both humorous and infuriating.
obama's birth certificate (lol) lists his father as African. Why isn't his mother listed as North American? If it was real his father would have been listed as Negro back in 1961. His mother is listed as Caucasian, Africa is a continent, Caucasian isn't. Duh.