Democratic Counties Outpoll GOP Strongholds in High Court Race
Prosser's margin in the suburban GOP counties not enough to overcome Kloppenburg's wins in Dane, Milwaukee counties.
In the battle of the partisan stronghold counties, Dane and Milwaukee were the winners in Tuesday's Supreme Court election. Democratic challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg outpolled incumbent Republican David Prosser in Dane and Milwaukee counties by a wider margin that he beat her by in suburban Milwaukee counties, according to Patch's analysis of the state Supreme Court results compiled by the Associated Press. Prosser received 91,043 more votes than Kloppenburg in Waukesha, Washington, Ozaukee and Racine counties combined. But Kloppenburg received 114,597 more votes than Prosser in Milwaukee and Dane counties combined. That's a net difference of about 23,000 votes in a race that was decided by a few hundred. Adding the total votes in the four …
James R Hoffa
2:10 pm on Friday, April 8, 2011
You're joking, right? When did Prosser ever say that he would act as a compliment to anyone? Oh, that's right - he didn't. Those comments were made by his campaign manager who mispoke. When Prosser himself caught wind of this, he publically disavowed it. He did many times state that he was a judicial conservative, which is something very different from a political conservative. According to you … more ›