On Tuesday night candidate JoAnne Kloppenberg offered a good example of a premature announcement. Her news conference is remarkable. At this point she had a "lead" of 204 votes.
Last night the results changed a bit with David Prosser jumping into a 7500 vote margin. Let's see what the final canvas results in but at this point Ms. Kloppenberg looks pretty silly. According to the news reports, if the current margin holds up there will be no need for an automatic recount.
Steve Hughes from the group Move.on also seems to have misfired. In a note he gushed "We just had a HUGE win!! I'm literally breathless. I'm witnessing history. Incumbent candidates for the Wisconsin Supreme Court generally get re-elected in a landslide. But in the general election yesterday, progressive JoAnne Kloppenberg closed the gap and, with 100% of the precincts reporting, has beating (sic) conservative justice David Prosser! I wonder if Mr. Hughes is still "breathless." I bet he is.
On Friday morning Melissa Mulilken who was Kloppenberg's campaign manager announced this morning that they would begin raising money for a recount. Reminder that Prosser now leads by a bit more than 7000 votes out of 1.5 million cast. Ms. Mulilken was not clear about whether the money raised would be actually used to do the recount or to simply reimburse the unions who poured tons of bucks to try to by the race.
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