Straw told me this election would be a harbinger of things to come. Correct!
I am banned from that site for trolling a michelle obama love fest. At first I tried being coy about it, but eventually I just unloaded on that slob and got all the adoring sycophants up in arms.
Yes it was worth the ban. Lol.
Straw told me this election would be a harbinger of things to come. Correct!
it still will be
when he ran in 2001 there wasn't even an opposition candidate
this time he "won" by a small margin with the help of millions of dollars from the Koch Brothers against an unknown opponent who had no money
he was polling 30 points up, just 3 months ago?
And he won by .001%?
Yes, bragging is definitely warranted here.
"It don't matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning's winning"
Dominic Toretto
it's still a win. but it's the gloating by the winner that looks bad. barely winning a seat you've always won by 30 miles isn't something to brag about. and if a 30 point margin is won by less than a point, it doesn't bode well for 2012 races which are much closer than 30 points.
But hey, let's celebrate. we should have an 'obamacare is dead' poster somewhere we can erase and use, right?
it's still a win. but it's the gloating by the winner that looks bad. barely winning a seat you've always won by 30 miles isn't something to brag about. and if a 30 point margin is won by less than a point, it doesn't bode well for 2012 races which are much closer than 30 points.
But hey, let's celebrate. we should have an 'obamacare is dead' poster somewhere we can erase and use, right?
HAD NO MONEY?? PLEASE!!!
The union bubbas poured MILLIONS into Kloppenberg's campaign (SEIU, AFL-CIO, and other left-winged schills almost too numerous to count).
The lefties (Kloppenberg included) simply popped the bubbly a little too soon, only to get embarrassed when the numbers were double-checked.
And Bob Dohnal, publisher of the Wisconsin-based Conservative Digest, circulated an email on April 7 saying conservatives were outspent 10 to 1. He told us the figure was based on information "bandied around the Internet and the talk shows for weeks."
The two tallies we found both showed a big advantage for Prosser’s side -- not Kloppenburg’s.The first was a report -- released on election day -- by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University Law School that looked at broadcast TV spending by outside groups. It is the only organization we could find that attempts to put a hard number on such spending by outside groups.
The left-leaning think tank/advocacy group relies on TV satellite data collected by TNS Media Intelligence/CMAG, an ad-tracking firm. It says its numbers are estimates that may underestimate the precise amount of actual expenditures.
The Brennan study was reported widely by Wisconsin and national media, including the Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, and the Journal Sentinel.
It found there had been $2.2 million spent by four conservative groups through election day vs. $1.36 million by one liberal group, the Greater Wisconsin Committee.
(The conservative groups are the Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce’s issues mobilization council, Citizens for a Strong America, Wisconsin Club for Growth and the State Tea Party Express).
That’s an $840,000 advantage for the conservative side.
The Brennan study also was picked up on WisPolitics.com, a widely cited online digest. The website added some of its own reporting and wrote on election day that pro-Prosser groups outspent the Kloppenburg side, $2.5 million to $1.9 million. That’s a somewhat smaller $600,000 advantage.[/quote]
both took 400k in public financing
let me guess,
you got your info from from the same place that this guy got his info
Let me know if you want to compare who spent their money to lie and smear their opponent
see if you can guess who wins that comparison (hint - it's the party known for saying things that are not intended to be factual statements)
http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2011/apr/10/charlie-sykes/charlie-sykes-says-joanne-kloppenburg-had-3-1-adva/QuoteThe two tallies we found both showed a big advantage for Prosser’s side -- not Kloppenburg’s.The first was a report -- released on election day -- by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University Law School that looked at broadcast TV spending by outside groups. It is the only organization we could find that attempts to put a hard number on such spending by outside groups.
The left-leaning think tank/advocacy group relies on TV satellite data collected by TNS Media Intelligence/CMAG, an ad-tracking firm. It says its numbers are estimates that may underestimate the precise amount of actual expenditures.
The Brennan study was reported widely by Wisconsin and national media, including the Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, and the Journal Sentinel.
It found there had been $2.2 million spent by four conservative groups through election day vs. $1.36 million by one liberal group, the Greater Wisconsin Committee.
(The conservative groups are the Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce’s issues mobilization council, Citizens for a Strong America, Wisconsin Club for Growth and the State Tea Party Express).
That’s an $840,000 advantage for the conservative side.
The Brennan study also was picked up on WisPolitics.com, a widely cited online digest. The website added some of its own reporting and wrote on election day that pro-Prosser groups outspent the Kloppenburg side, $2.5 million to $1.9 million. That’s a somewhat smaller $600,000 advantage.[/quote]
The left-leaning think tank/advocacy group relies on TV satellite data collected by TNS Media Intelligence/CMAG, an ad-tracking firm. It says its numbers are estimates that may underestimate the precise amount of actual expenditures.
The Brennan study was reported widely by Wisconsin and national media, including the Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, and the Journal Sentinel.
It found there had been $2.2 million spent by four conservative groups through election day vs. $1.36 million by one liberal group, the Greater Wisconsin Committee.
(The conservative groups are the Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce’s issues mobilization council, Citizens for a Strong America, Wisconsin Club for Growth and the State Tea Party Express).
That’s an $840,000 advantage for the conservative side.
The Brennan study also was picked up on WisPolitics.com, a widely cited online digest. The website added some of its own reporting and wrote on election day that pro-Prosser groups outspent the Kloppenburg side, $2.5 million to $1.9 million. That’s a somewhat smaller $600,000 advantage.[/quote]
You're late to the party. I know that Prosser got more money. $4.5 million was spend, $2.7 million to Prosser; $1.8 million to Kloppenberg (that's roughly a 60-40 split).
The point, of course, is that your claim of Kloppenberg having no money was woefully false.
Kloppenburg began her campaign for the state Supreme Court as an all-but-certain loser, a political neophyte challenging entrenched Justice David Prosser.
As a member of the 4-3 conservative majority on the high court, Prosser was positioned to secure the major endorsements, enjoy the support of free-spending special interest groups and dominate the race. In the mid-February primary, which came just days after Walker announced his anti-union project, Prosser defeated Kloppenburg by 30 points.
But on the same night that Prosser was coasting to that primary victory, one of the first major demonstrations against Walker's bill drew 8,000 people to the state Capitol in Madison. Those numbers grew to 20,000, to 50,000, to 80,000, to 100,000 and ultimately to 125,000 at a mass rally several weeks ago. The Wisconsin movement became a national and, ultimately, an international phenomenon.
Slowly, it began to dawn on the protesters that the April 5 Supreme Court election was an opportunity to mount not only protests in the street but protests at the polls.
Handmade "Kloppenburg" signs began to appear at the rally. The candidate, an assistant attorney general, was running a campaign with such a low budget that it could not afford printed signs, so her supporters made their own.
They also started to expose Prosser as a rigid partisan who had brought his Republican politics to what is supposed to be a nonpartisan bench. A former leader of legislative Republicans who served as Assembly Speaker and mentored a young legislator named Scott Walker, Prosser's reelection campaign had begun with an announcement that he planned to make the court a "complement" to the Walker administration and Republican majorities in the state Assembly and Senate.
Kloppenburg promised to serve as an independent jurist who would uphold the rule of law, rather than promote the governor's agenda. That was more than enough for the unions and their allies, which embraced the Kloppenburg campaign — along with the hope of grabbing majority control of the court away from Walker-allied conservatives...
Her candidacy became a focus of the movement that had developed to oppose Walker's agenda and, as Election Day approached, the impossible run began to look like the real thing. Prosser still had all his advantages, but Kloppenburg had the masses. Outside groups poured money into the contest, with the majority of it going to Prosser, a Tea Party favorite endorsed by Sarah Palin. But Kloppenburg had plenty of support, especially at the grassroots, where the handmade signs went up all over the state.
Stupid liberals. Bunch of sore losers.
So I guess the next time a conservative loses an election, he or she can claim they lost ONLY because they were outspent.
Losers always make excuses and blame others.
They always claim "we didnt get our message out"
Hey you stupid left wing fools - YOUR MESSAGE IS YOUR PROBLEM!
and when the right loses,they say he wasn't born in the u.s. :D :D Stupid repubs. Bunch of sore losers. ;DLosers always make excuses and blame others
The right did not lose wheN Obama got elected. AMERICA lost when morons like you were fooled into voting for the retard from Harvard.
How is that Hope and Change working for you? Is Guantanamo closed yet? Is the war in Iraq and Afghanistan over yet? Is unemployment below 8%? Do you still have AFFORDABLE universal health care yet? Ouch, how many years do we still have to wait for Obamacare to fully take effect? Obamacare is such a great program that it hasn't yet been fully implemented. It is not even constitutional.
HAHAHAHA!!! THE JOKE WAS ON YOU, FOOL!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
41% at gallup, tsunami loss in the mid term, bama at 41% on gallup, losing te senate in 2012 - yeah keep it up blackass.
You know - I alost prefer you stealing others' posts from DU. It made it far more readable than this nonense and gibberish.
i like reading your copy and paste opinion articles,you know the ones you always post as fact :D.i was going to take a trip to india,how much is that going to cost i heard it's about 200 million a day :D
If you have a fat pig and slob ball and chain spouse who cafones an scarfs down everything in sight like Mobacca the Hut, it just might cost you that much.
it's still a win. but it's the gloating by the winner that looks bad. barely winning a seat you've always won by 30 miles isn't something to brag about. and if a 30 point margin is won by less than a point, it doesn't bode well for 2012 races which are much closer than 30 points.
But hey, let's celebrate. we should have an 'obamacare is dead' poster somewhere we can erase and use, right?
Gloating? Really?
He wasn't the one declaring victory on an unofficial margin of 204 votes. ::) Now that the official count is in and it's over 7300 in his favor, she wants a recount - A HAND RECOUNT in the largest counties, to the tune of over a a million dollars to the taxpayers.
Why Kloppenburg felt a lead of 200 votes in an unofficial election night tally was sufficient for her to claim victory but a 7300 margin in the official results is not enough to concede defeat?
And those official result took nearly two weeks to count. What makes her think that things are going to go her way. The only bad part is that Prosser's lead shrunk from 7,582 to 7,316. If the former had held, Kloppenberg would have had to pay for this mess HERSELF (meaning she probably would have conceded the race).
he was polling 30 points up, just 3 months ago?
And he won by .001%?
Yes, bragging is definitely warranted here.
i like reading your copy and paste opinion articles,you know the ones you always post as fact
Wis. Supreme Court Challenger Concedes Defeat
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
MADISON, Wis. — The challenger for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court has conceded defeat to a conservative incumbent justice in an election seen as a referendum on Republican Gov. Scott Walker's divisive union rights bill.
Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg announced her decision Tuesday in Madison. Justice David Prosser, who has served for 12 years on the court, begins a new 10-year term in August.
Kloppenburg declared victory the day after the April 5 election after initial returns showed her leading by about 200 votes. But a county elections official said the next day that she failed to report 14,000 votes. Those votes gave Prosser a 7,316-vote lead.
Kloppenburg picked up 312 votes from the recount.
Walker's legislation would strip most public workers of nearly all collective bargaining rights.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/WisconsinSupremeCourt-Recount/2011/05/31/id/398315
And, now the libs are blubbering about this, vowing revenge with the recall elections.