I just love the following headline in today’s Detroit Free Press:
Angry voters send gov a message
And I hope that instead of taking it down, they keep it up.
Wisconsin voters sent Republican Gov. Scott Walker a message about their unhappiness with his muscling an anti-union rights bill through the state Legislature by sending a once runaway state Supreme Court race toward a near-certain recount and filling the governor’s former post with a Democrat.
Although Walker downplayed the significance of Tuesday’s elections on Wednesday, Democrats warned they were only a sign of what’s to come.
In the most closely watched race, a little-known assistant state attorney general possibly unseated a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice often associated with Walker. Unofficial returns Wednesday showed JoAnne Kloppenburg with a 204-vote lead over Justice David Prosser. His campaign said a recount is expected.
Here’s the headline with the picture:
Hope they keep it up too, but I liked it so much I just had to get a screen shot in case they don’t.
I had already read about the results in yesterday’s blogosphere news, and like everyone else I assumed this was one of those cliffhanger races, in which anyone might have won depending on who sneezed waiting in line and went home early. Hardly an example of “angry voters” sending a message.
But then I saw this at Instapundit:
APPARENTLY, Prosser won the election. More here. Wow. Stay tuned.
Wow is right. (Ann Althouse has a great post, too.)
Say, exactly what was that “message” again?
It wasn’t just a win; Prosser gained 7,582 votes (which weren’t tallied until after a major counting error was detected). Glenn also links the latest from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
Considering the spread, I think maybe the angry voters did send gov a message.
A message that says, KEEP IT UP!
Which is what the Detroit Free Press should do.
(And maybe they should keep up the puff pieces encouraging Communist demonstrators who travel from Detroit to Madison too!)
MORE: Don’t miss yesterday’s Kloppenburg victory speech! But can she keep it up?
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5 responses to “Keep it up!”
Hehe, nice find.
The Unions roared and in the end all they could do was go from a wide spread to a narrow margin.
I think the financial crisis has severely crimped the power of the unions. Job destroyers where ever they land. If unions actually added value they would be looking good in the current crisis.
If union teachers delivered a better product they would be in demand.
Kloppenburg’s campaign was doomed from the start. Name recognition is everything.
http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._Prosser
Eric, your comment about the Freep reminds me of something. I was following the election returns via the Milwaukee paper, as well as AP, and it was impossible not to notice that the editors of the Journal-Sentinal had gone out of their way to print the goofiest picture of Prosser they could find, next to the most beatific picture of Kloppenburg.
It pisses me off to no end when putatively objective newspapers do that. Overtly partisan bloggers? Fine. But the media have become so corrupt with this pretense of objectivity.
So yeah, I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning. It smells like victory.
DJ, now that I think about it, maybe they chose the above picture of Prosser to imply that he was giving a Nazi salute. They loved doing that with Bush, so Republicans have to be very careful about waving.
But Democrats are free to give the Communist clenched-fist salute and no one dares say anything.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clenched_fist