Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

GOOD GOING WISCONSIN!

The Democrats blew away by HUGE margins the GOP candidates in the election yesterday.

The Democrats prevailed despite the low-level dirty tricks of running fake Democrats and urging GOPers to register as Democrats and voting for the fakes.

"Wisconsin Democrats have easily fended off a Republican ploy in the state Senate recalls, with the official Dem candidates in each of six races easily defeating Republican activists who also filed in the Democratic primaries. But Republicans have not failed to reap some advantages from the situation.

With the vast majority of the precincts now in, all six official Democrats have been projected as the winners by the Associated Press. Only one primary, for the 10th District (GOP Sen. Sheila Harsdorf), has turned out to be tight or seriously contested, with official Dem candidate Shelly Moore winning by a margin of 54%-46%.

The other Dem primaries are nowhere near that close: Nancy Nusbaum is winning the primary for the 2nd District (Sen. Robert Cowles) by 65%-35%; Sandy Pasch is winning the 8th District (Sen. Alberta Darling) by 67%-33%; Fred Clark is winning the 14th District (Sen. Luther Olsen) by 67%-33%; Jessica King is winning the 18th District (Sen. Randy Hopper) by 68%-32%; and Jennifer Shilling is winning the 32nd District (Sen. Dan Kapanke) by 70%-30%.

Soon after the recall elections were triggered, Republicans declared a strategy to plant fake candidates in the Democratic primaries -- which they have called "protest candidates" -- in order to delay the general elections from July to August, while the GOP incumbents ran unopposed. The candidates included a GOP activist in his 20s, and an octogenarian former GOP state representative, among others. As it turned out, the scheme would cost local governments throughout the state over $400,000."

h/t TalkingPointsMemo

WISCONSINITES HAVE VOTED AND PUSHED BACK AGAINST THE DESTRUCTIVE GOPers AND THEIR ANTI-UNION POLICIES. 

LET'S HOPE THE MOMENTUM HOLDS FOR THE 2012 ELECTIONS.

And from California, more good news for liberals:

Source: Associated Press

(07-12) 23:40 PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) --

Democrat Janice Hahn has won a hotly contested race to fill a vacant U.S. House seat in Southern California, beating Republican Craig Huey.
An unofficial tally of ballots in the 36th Congressional District special election showed Hahn had 41,585 votes, or about 55 percent, to Huey's 34,636, or about 45 percent, with 100 percent of precincts reporting.


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/0...

1 comment:

Sue said...

It's a great day in America!! GO Wisconsin voters, they are awake and organized! The GOP is showing their absolute stupidity, it's way tooooo funny watching them implode!!