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The Christmas cookies have been eaten and the champagne bottle has been emptied so that means it's time for me to end my blog. As I mentioned earlier, I have taken a job in the Capitol and I will not be blogging while I work there.I had a good time doing this blog right up until the end. In fact, one of my favorite items was one of the most recent ones - the website of Supreme Court Candidate

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Ok, so admit it. You are not really getting anything done today at your office. So why not take part in the Photoshop contest featuring Supreme Court Justice Candidate Annette Ziegler. She's already been to the moon and to Baghdad. Where will she go next?

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Tony Galli at WKOW-TV recently asked Supreme Court Justice Candidate Annette Ziegler about the doctored photos on her website and gave one of the worst candidate responses I've seen in a long time. When asked whether or not the doctored photos were meant to mislead voters, she referred them to a consultant.The single word "no" probably would have been a better answer.Ziegler's consultant tries

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Next week will be my last week of blogging for a while. I've decided to take a job in the Capitol and I will not be posting to my blog while I'm working there. I've had a lot of fun doing this so I suspect I will be back at some point.My family celebrates Christmas so I won't be posting until I'm done putting on the mandatory five Christmas pounds and finished all the extra shopping President

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Here's some free campaign advice for State Supreme Court Candidate Annette Ziegler - just give up the map on your website. It is going to be an endless source of entertainment for people like me because you don't seem to know much about our state.Today on "Where In The World Is Annette Ziegler Really?" we head to Portage County. If you go to her website and roll the mouse over Portage County

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"[I]f American citizens don’t wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran," the letter reads. Who is Virgil Goode? Unfortunately, this idiot is a U.S. Congressman elected by the state of Virginia. The quote is from a letter he sent to a constituent. Before Goode takes the oath of office,

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-By Tom Toles of the Washington Post

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A while back State Senator Alan Lasee (R-De Pere) announced he is running for Brown County Executive. He had two statements that caught my eye.One was this:Lasee says he was tired of making the commute to Madison...You know, I think the voters of the 1st Senate District might have been interested in that statement about two months ago. But perhaps he only became sick of the drive once he

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Feeling down because your party lost just about everything in the last election? Feeling optimistic that your party can continue build momentum and take even more seats in Congress? Then start sizing up the 2008 U.S. Senate races here from The Fix at the Washington Post. The author, Chris Cillizza, even delves into how the presidential ticket might change the outcome of certain races...And for

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Campaigns are a lot of work. Especially statewide campaigns. You have to go all over the state, meet lots of people and take pictures to use on your campaign website and literature.Unless you are Annette Ziegler, a woman running for the Wisconsin State Supreme Court against Linda Clifford. Annette Ziegler doesn't appear to have the time to actually go to courthouses in Milwaukee, Ozaukee,

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Thousands of Goodyear employees do not a paycheck coming for the holiday season. Please donate to the worker fund to support those that fight to make sure jobs in this country can support families. Every dime goes to the families. Go here for the details.

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More or less. They are already trying to figure out how fast they can get the Republican governor of South Dakota to appoint a Republican to fill his seat. They really have no shame. You can find the clip here at ThinkProgress.

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TPM Cafe has the results of a poll on Dem prez candidates. As is often the case, the voters that know a candidate the best are holding back support. Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack did not come out ahead in the poll. Which candidate did? I think you'll be surprised. You can find the post here.

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From The Washington Post's The Fix column:House Democrats increased their 2006 election gains to 30 seats Tuesday, with former Rep. Ciro Rodriguez's (D) surprisingly convincing victory over Rep. Henry Bonilla (R) in a runoff election in Texas's massive 23rd District.And it looks like all the immigrant bashing may have fed into the loss for the Republicans.Rodriguez's win comes just five weeks

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Let's hope this doesn't happen. Midwest is the only decent airline out there. And, as mentioned in the article, our air service would probably decline if we didn't have an airline hub here.

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"I think we have to be happy conservatives."-U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS)Yes, I'm sure the American people will like your cuts to student loans while you are giving massive tax cuts to the wealthy if you all just smiled more often and have more happy thoughts in your head.Keep dreaming. You can find the quote above in an AP story in the Washington Post.

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If you live in Milwaukee or Madison and have a few hours to spare on Saturday, please consider taking the time to support the Goodyear workers.The Details:Milwaukee members and supporters will meet at the following location : On Saturday, December 16, from Noon-2 pm , USW members and their supporters will gather at the USW Milwaukee office, 1126 S. 70th Street, West Allis, WI . (Meet behind the

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Accoring to a new Gallup poll, Americans don't believe any of the spin that we are winning in Iraq. They aren't buying the ridiculous spin that the situation is not a civil war either. Unfortunately, they also don't think anyone is capable of solving the crisis. You can find the story here and the poll results here.Hat tip: American Progress Action Fund

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Rep. Steve Nass (R-Whitewater) must have had his head in the ground on November 7th this year. He doesn't seem to realize that his world has changed a little bit. From WISCTV:State Rep. Stephen Nass, of Whitewater, sent the regents a letter asking for the delay. He threatened to propose a constitutional amendment banning race-based admissions, as was approved in November in Michigan, if his

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-By Rob Rogers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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TPM Muckraker has a farewell to the outgoing Congress that is not only humorous, it's a great summary of the many, many sordid tales of the 109th Congress.

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"It's a spectacular disorder of chaos. We will have to run a cleanup brigade."-Rep. Dave Obey (D-WI) on the Republicans leaving town without passing nine out of eleven appropriations bills.At least some of the Republicans are feeling some shame about this juvenile move by the current leaders in Congress. Not enough of them to actually do their work of course. These jokers should never, ever be

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Can Hillary win in 2008?Dick Morris says yes. The rest of Morris' article is crap, but there is one interesting paragraph. From his article in The Hill:She definitely can win...and probably will. She is uniquely able to expand the electorate to bring in millions of women, mostly single, who will vote overwhelmingly for a female Democrat. The feminization of poverty, long decried by the left,

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The U.S. House of Representatives defeated the so-called Unborn Child Pain Awareness act. The bill tried to force doctors to tell women unproved facts about fetal pain. Some in the medical community think it could have been dangerous to women too because it would have doctors encouraging women to take larger doses of anesthetics. The vote was 250-162 and failed because it was being considered

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In my post yesterday about health care and the Assembly Republicans, I mixed up two health care bills. Rep. Huebsch is upset the Farm Bureau is going to consider supporting the Wisconsin Health Plan introduce by Rep. Gielow and Rep. Richards(AB1140), not the WI Health Care Partnership Plan (SB698) introduced by Senator Decker and Rep. Terry Musser.The message is the same though. Bipartisan

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Chris Cillizza over that The Fix blog for the Washington Post thinks the Democrats have an image problem because more people self-identify as "conservative" rather than "liberal."Asked to name which words fits their political thinking best, "conservative" ruled the roost with 54 percent saying it applied to them. Contrast that with the 34 percent who said "liberal" was an apt description of their

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Rep. Debi Towns (R-Janesville) has a parting gift for her party they probably won't like. She is finishing up her report on four-year-old kindergarten before she leaves office next month. And here's the thing that will rub her party the wrong way - she likes it. Debi Towns has spent months researching this topic and came away convinced that it is good for the children of Wisconsin.So will the

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The U.S. House Dems have started divvying up the spoils of victory by naming some of the chairmen for committees. As expected, Wisconsin's Dave Obey pulled in the big one.Although the results of yesterday’s meeting were expected — Rep. Dave Obey (D-Wis.) will chair Appropriations, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) Ways and Means, Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) Energy and Commerce and Rep. Barney Frank

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The new leadership team in the Wisconsin Assembly has failed on health care before they even have one day of session.Earlier this week, Speaker-elect Mike Huebsch (R-West Salem) sent a letter to the Farm Bureau asking them not to vote to support the Wisconsin Health Plan. What arrogance it takes to send a letter to a group of people that are really struggling to be able to afford health care and

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Even though conservatives are trying to make Senator-elect Jim Webb look bad after his recent verbal joust with President Bush, as usual, there is more to the story. Turns out, President Bush was warned to steer clear of the topic because Webb's son had just had a close call in Iraq and probably wasn't up to chit chat about it. In fact, Webb tried to be the gentleman in the situation and

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An article in The Hill newspaper is outlining a plan by a coalition of liberal leaning groups to build support for the "100 Hours" agenda of Speaker-elect Pelosi and House Democrats. The Green Bay area 8th CD is on the list of 86 Congressional Districts that will be targeted.The plan looks to build support quickly for numerous items:The groups will focus their efforts on 54 Republican and 32

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Yesterday a staffer for Senator Dan Kapanke (R-a district the dems will soon pick up) issued a letter saying that he is the one that made the copies of a campaign plan for the senate democrats. Of course, his story doesn't really match up with the one told by Republicans earlier this year. It's hard to keep your story straight when you are lying.Senator Mark Miller (D-Monona) was telling the

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Frank Rich of the New York Times has a very well-done piece posted at Truth Out on just how dangerous President Bush has become on Iraq. Rich correctly notes that President Bush will never be able to solve the problems or even change the strategy in Iraq since he seems totally unaware of what the problems really are...The most startling example was his insistence that Al Qaeda is primarily

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Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is going to push for paper trails and audits for electronic voting. You can find out more here.Hat Tip: American Progress Action Fund.

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Good riddance to Bolton. A true embarrassment for our country.From TPM Muckraker:Next year marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. As far as anniversaries go, it seems like a good one to recognize, doesn't it? It should not be a real bone of contention to say that one is against slavery; and, upon hearing of the anniversary of its abolition in one region,

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The Republicans in Congress don't feel like they have to finish their work and pass the remaining appropriations bills that they left behind to hit the campaign trail, but they do have time to pander to their base. Even if it means making things up.The extremists in Congress are trying to make sure they pass a bill to require doctors to tell women something that they can't prove. ...lawmakers

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Mayor Dave might not be a fan of Halloween on State Street, but UW Hockey Coach Mike Eaves is probably pretty happy we have it. Halloween helped snag one of the hottest hockey recruits to hit the ice in a while. Kyle Turris is such a good hockey player that the NHL came calling. Luckily, he was touring our campus on Halloween. He loved the energy of the Kohl Center during a hockey game, but

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Yes, it's really early. And a lot could happen in the next two years. The new little congresspeople haven't even been sworn in yet. But, I still think it's interesting that the WI 8th Congressional District is not on the list of ten U.S. House seats most likely to change hands in 2008 from the Washington Post's political blog. You can find the post here.

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The Washington Post has an article today with the National Institute of Standards and Technology saying that electronic voting cannot be made secure. The report validates the claims many critics of the new voting system have been saying from day one:NIST says in its report that the lack of a paper trail for each vote "is one of the main reasons behind continued questions about voting system

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For all of the stat geeks out there, DailyKos has a map shows Wisconsin's voting by Congressional District. The big patch of blue in the NE corner of the state is very fun to see.

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-By Rob Rogers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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This month the state of Minnesota elected the first Muslim to Congress when the voted to send Keith Ellison to Washington, D.C. This should be a great opportunity for our country to start looking past the stereotypes many people hold of Muslims. Instead, some on the right have questioned whether or not he is fit to serve in Congress right out of the gate. It started when Fox "news" host, Glenn

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Just what would it take for J.B. Van Hollen to say he has a conflict of interest in a case? As Van Hollen gets ready to take office next month, the body of evidence gets stronger every week that he should not get involved in the state's case regarding a cranberry grower and yet he continues to insist there is no problem.The Shepherd Express sums up the problem nicely:Incoming state attorney

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Last week's Wispolitics Report noted that Bob Delaporte has returned to work in the Capitol. Good news for him right? But isn't there a hiring freeze in place on the Assembly side of the building?A memo dated June 7th from John Gard told Assembly Members that since the state budget reduced the amount of money available for the Assembly, he was instituting a hiring freeze until the end of the

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The Madison School District announced today that it will not scrap the gifted and talented program at East High. You could almost hear the collective sigh of relief from many of the parents in this area. The proposal to eliminate the classes comes from a line of thinking that in order to close the achievement gap, students should be placed in "heterogeneous" classes where students of all

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Hats off to the city of Madison for finding a pretty decent compromise on the potential new development near Cherokee Marsh. Having some new homes built there will be an economic bonus for the northside of the city. It also might even be a net environmental gain since much of the land being targeted for development is currently used as farm fields that are probably sending some bad stuff into

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Three U.S. House races are still up in the air. Two of them - Rep. Debra Pryce's seat in Ohio and Rep. Robin Hayes in North Carolina - are headed for recounts. The other is potentially headed for a new election after electronic voting machines malfunctioned.You can find a story about them in the Washington Post here.

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Should we start taking bets now on which Republican is going to get this job? The possibilities for fun are endless with this one.

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Some in the Republican Party are really reaching now. They are arguing that their party's losses this November were exaggerated by straight-party option voting and they want to do away with it. So does the straight-party option change races or is it nothing more than a time saver for people at the polls? I'd say the latter.An article in The Hill newspaper runs through a few of the

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This week the Wisconsin State Journal did a great service to Wisconsin voters by dishing Attorney General-elect J.B. Van Hollen's conflict of interest on the cranberry case. Then they declined to eat their own creation when they wrote an editorial today saying the state should drop the lawsuit, but Van Hollen should not be involved in the decision. How is that even possible at this point and

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Yet another horrific example of why religion doesn't belong in politics.

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You have to read this story to believe it. Racine County Republican supporters of County Executive William McReynolds are calling for Supervisor Ken Hall to resign.Ken Hall is the Racine County Supervisor that released a report detailing just how expensive McReynolds' side businesses are to Racine County taxpayers. You can find the report at this post from Progressive Majority Wisconsin.And

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-By Rob Rogers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Crawford's take has some interesting questions for the Van Hollen Team. I don't know much about the laws in this area, but perhaps someone else out there does and can help. You can find them here.

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This article about Rep. Rob Kreibich's loss with nearly $100,000 in the bank is hilarious. It has this beauty of a quote:"As an incumbent, if you can't hold your Assembly seat spending $50,000, you don't deserve to be in office," Kreibich said...So Kreibich thinks he sucks and clearly his district thinks he sucks too or they wouldn't have voted for someone else.The article is good for a laugh

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Part of the reason Republicans lost is that they have absolutely no idea just how much working families are struggling. Every time a pundit tried to bring up the struggle of the working man or woman, the Republicans would say something along the lines of the Dow is at a record high so the economy is doing great. If they had taken the time to look beyond their buddies on Wall Street, they would

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This story from the AP is outrageous. The Republicans running Congress right now have decided that they are going to leave their budget mess behind for the Democrats to clean up next year rather than finish the appropriations bills now that they should have done before the elections.It's of course part of the plan for the Republicans to take back control in two years.The bulging workload that a

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-By Ann Telnaes via Slate.com

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In what could be a smaller version of the Supreme Court decision to pick a president, the U.S. House of Representatives could end up picking which candidate won Katherine Harris' old seat. I hope the Dems don't end up picking the winner. Rather, I'd like to see them use this to create a verifiable election result for electronic voting and force the companies to open up those machines. You can

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Charlie Sykes was in a lather this morning on his talk show about the state budget. He kept saying Governor Doyle lied and the press bought it. He even had Rep. Mark Green call in to give the sour grapes analysis. Then he produced what he said was the 'smoking gun' to prove the media committed malpractice.What was his proof? This letter to the editor that George Mitchell sent to newspapers,

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A deal was just announced for the striking janitors in Houston. They have been on strike for about a month. It's a big victory and shows the power of standing together to demand better treatment from employers. SEIU organized the 5300 janitors just last year.Under today's agreement, the SEIU janitors will get a 50.5 percent pay raise over the two-year contract. On January 1, pay will increase

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A press release by CRG Walworth says they have enough signatures to put a measure reducing the size of the County Board from 25 to 11 next April. Given the success of these measures in other counties this month, the Walworth County Board members should start making plans for more than half of them no longer having seats. Walworth County is about as Republican as they come and should have no

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Under the 'you just can't make this stuff' category...From Think Progress:The new HHS appointee for family planning authored this (PDF) power-point on how too much sex causes brain damage. He believes that even married couples should not use contraception. If you want to know where theo-conservatism goes next, the war on contraception is clearly a major priority; and Keroack is the kind of guy

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Charlie Sykes had a blog posting last week that is incomplete and leaves people wit the wrong idea about what the biggest problem facing American auto companies. He put up a chart from Forbes that shows some of the costs American auto companies must deal with to produce a car. His post is trying to give the impression that the unions are the reason reason American car companies can't compete.

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For those that simply cannot get enough speculation on elections, The Fix over at the Washington Post is looking toward the 2008 elections for the Senate. Things look promising for my side, but so much can change now that the Dems have to lead.A cursory evaluation of the 2008 Senate playing field shows Democrats seemingly well-positioned to build on their 51-seat majority. Of the 33 seats up for

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If you are wondering what has happened in all of the seats that were considered too close to call last week, you can go TPM Cafe's summary here. Also note, since that was written, Republican Heather Wilson has been declared the winner in the New Mexico seat by 879 votes. Patricia Madrid, the Democratic candidate, had not decided whether or not she will seek a recount.

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If you can, take some time tomorrow to support striking USW Members at Goodyear. Here are the details:Join striking USW members from Goodyear Tire and Rubber as they take their fight against corporate greed to Goodyear dealers in the Milwaukee area. Strikers and their supporters will be leafleting several Goodyear dealers to alert consumers to the fight to preserve retirement and health care

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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel All Politics Watch Blog has a summary of the timeline for the three assembly recounts.Madison - Three narrowly won Assembly races will be recounted.Canvassers in southwestern Wisconsin began a recount this morning requested by Democrat Gail Frie, who lost to by 430 votes to Rep. Lee Nerison (R-Westby), according to unofficial totals. Assembly Speaker-elect Mike

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Some people need to find reality again after the November elections. From the New York Times:Liberal bloggers say they are not receiving the credit they deserve and are chafing at how what they call the mainstream media has showered too much credit on Emanuel and his senate counterpart, Charles E. Schumer of New York, for the sweep.Emanuel and Schumer. You know, the head of the teams that

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This press release about the Iraq occupation by Rep. Frank 'a gun in every classroom' Lasee is a good indication that he is looking at running for the 8th Congressional District against Steve Kagen in 2008. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part...UPDATE: Rep. Frank Lasee was spotted in the rotunda yesterday. He was on one knee in front of the veterans memorial with his hand on his

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-By Steve Sack of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune via Slate.com

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The right half of the blogosphere has been debating whether or not the Republicans lost the election because they were not conservative enough. In Wisconsin we may get to see that debate play out in dramatic fashion after seeing the leadership elections in the senate.The Wisconsin State Senate elected three extremists to run their caucus - Senator Scott Fitzgerald will be the Minority Leader,

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It's official. The Republicans failed to beat a single Democratic incumbent Senator, Representative or Governor last week. The counting has ended in the two close races against incumbent Democratic Representatives in Georgia and the Democrats have come out ahead.Just how big is this? From CQ Politics:Barrow's win also means the Democrats held all of their House, Senate and gubernatorial seats

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"Republicans had a failed agenda. The contrast was pretty stark," she said. "They focused a lot of time on socially divisive issues, and we spent time on issues that united people. The real values are making sure families have affordable health care, not whether they have guns in every pocket or a redefinition of marriage."--Senator Judy Robson on why the Senate Democrats won the majorityThe

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John Gard seems to be totally clueless as to why he lost his election. The American public had just finished a complete election day rejection of the Bush Administration's tactics of trying to convince the public that it is just too dangerous to vote for Democrats when Gard busted out this (from WBAY):Gard says he isn't shocked by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's abrupt resignation. His

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The New York Times has a fun map about the elections here. Ignore the fact that it looks like lots of pregnancy tests all lined up. It's got a lot of fun facts to compare.It shows the all the seats in the U.S. House of Representatives that swung the House to the Dems and the voting percentages from 2004 and 2006. You can also chart out things like income level and voting percentages for the

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-By Nick Anderson via Slate.com

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Here is the letter that the Senate Democrats should send back to Senator Alan Lasee after he wrote this absurd letter to them, but they are much too nice to do it.Dear Senator Lasee:Thank you for sending your letter full of things you would like us to do when we take over the Senate next year. We all needed a good laugh.Your offer of help in our transition to controlling the senate is so

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The GOP may have to spend many years undoing the damage they did this year by trying to convince voters that the problems our country is facing stem from immigrants instead of the way the federal government was being run by the Republicans. From Talking Points Memo:How many years did the GOP put itself back with the rising population of hispanic voters in this country by running pretty much

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Need a good laugh? The guy that won the election for Attorney general in Eau Claire County is named Rich White. Why is this funny? Some friends of mine that did doors up there said his yard signs said "Rich White Republican" and that's how the ballot probably read too. You can find the vote tallies here. Scroll down to the District Attorney race under the statewides, congressional and

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Two Wisconsin Republican Congressmen had statements recently that are so insulting to our troops and our nation that they should be asked a few more questions about the statements before being allowed to pretend they were on the correct side of this issue a few days after the election was over.The president's decision to bring new leadership to the Defense Department is the right thing to do, and

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It's generic. It's nothing to do with any of our candidates. It's all about the national tide that swept through Wisconsin that we didn't think was going to.-- Keith Gilkes, chief operative of the Committee to Elect a Republican Senate, calling Tuesday night "a Republican bloodbath."I certainly hope Gilkes really believes this. If he and others in charge of electing a Republican Senate here in

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Veterans Day should be a time for everyone to thank the vets in their life for the sacrifices they made. As I've mentioned before, I usually read the obituaries in the paper. I try to take note of the ones with the flag that designate a veteran and learn a little bit about them. We are losing the World War II generation fast and so many of them have led fascinating lives since the war. The

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In case anyone was wondering the answer to one of my questions in the "first random thoughts" post...Rep. Rob Kreibich (R-Eau Claire) had $115,408.08 in the bank on his pre-election report. That report covers campaign spending through 10/23/06. Think he spent over $100,000 in the last two weeks? I'm guessing no.Update: I guess Spivak and Bice were wondering about the answer to my question

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There has been a lot of talk about how the Republican strategy of putting the proposed amendment to ban on gay marriage and civil unions and the advisory vote on the death penalty backfired because it drove up Democratic turnout. That's true, but there is something else at work here that is very typical of our state that is being ingnored. Split-ticket voters.Wisconsin has one of the highest

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An article in the NY Times yesterday had a run down of the outgoing committee chairman versus the incoming committee chairman in the U.S. House of Representatives. There are a lot of differences between the two groups, but one could have lasting effects that could dramatically benefit our country in the long run.The new likely chairman list includes four African-American men. Rep. Charles

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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is calling on both Jack Voight and Kathleen Falk to officially throw in the towel today. Why is there such urgency? No one is hurt by waiting for the official canvass to come in. There are errors that do turn up. Like this example from Wispolitics:But La Crosse County Clerk Marion Naegle said her office found a mistake yesterday that flipped the results. Instead

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Do you think the Republicans are as gung ho on paperless voting systems now that Senator Allen's (R-VA) concession gives control of the U.S. Senate to the Democrats? They more or less couldn't even do recount since many of the voting machines there do not have a paper trail. From the New York Times:"A recount with these machines essentially involves an election official hitting the reprint

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By John Deering of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via Slate.com

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I'm pretty tired so this post will be very random. But going to bed late and happy on election night is a much better than late and deflated.Thank goodness we will still have Doyle. He may actually get to do more than block shots from the Republicans now that the senate went our way.Very happy for my friends in the state senate. Few believed that they could do it, but I always knew they

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Ok, I'm not 100% positive on this as there are still some numbers coming in, but from what I'm hearing on the phones, Dems have run the table on the four competitive state senate races.And the Assembly is looking like they are going to pick up more seats than anyone thought possible.

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John Lehman has defeated William McReynolds. This is the one I am the happiest about. McReynolds shouldn't be in office period much less promoted. I predict he will not be in office much longer in Racine County either.One down, two to go.

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CNN is saying that South Dakota voters have turned down a near total ban on abortions. It's a good set up for the case that the Supreme Court has in the chamber on the day after election day. The new Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday in a court challenge regarding so-called partial birth abortions. More on that later.

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WOO HOO!! Nancy Pelosi is going to be the first woman to be Speaker of the House. CNN is reporting that the Democrats will take control of the House. What a great day for women! It's about damn time.All of the dumb commercials run by Republicans warning that Pelosi could be Speaker of the House didn't work. She's here.Deal with it.

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CNN is reporting that the Dems have picked up two seats in Indiana and one in Kentucky by beating Rep. Hostettler, Rep. Chocola and Rep. Northrup. That is a good sign for Dems. Indiana and Kentucky aren't exactly big blue states. CNN is also reporting that Dems have picked up three U.S. Senate seats. Ohio, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. But those are the three easy ones most people were

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So far all of the news reports that I have seen indicate a higher than normal voter turnout for a non-presidential election year. If that holds, that's a good sign for the Dems.You can find a Washington Post article on turnout here. There are also many places experiencing voting glitches and some have extended voting hours to make sure everyone that wants to vote can do it. We could be in a

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A story in the Wisconsin State Journal today highlights something I've been thinking about ever since I saw the supposed public service ad being run by the Wisconsin Elections Board on television. The ad is needlessly confusing and may even keep some people from going to vote because they think they will have to do a lot of time consuming tasks before they can vote.It's like a campaign ad for

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I'm trying not to get too far into the hype of a Democratic tidal wave and keep in mind that if there is any party that can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, it is mine. But here goes....Governor - Jim Doyle wins with 52% of the vote. Mark Green just never seemed to catch on because this year voters just weren't buying the cookie cutter "Democrats are going to raise your taxes and I'm a

whatsleftwihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03849080755239698683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20091383.post-1162903149075165392006-11-07T06:35:00.000-06:002006-11-07T06:39:09.080-06:00

If you don't like the direction our government is going, get out and vote today.Don't listen to all the stories saying it's going to be a runaway year for the Dems and then think you don't need to vote. Bring a magazine in case the line is a little long. Please don't let a line keep you from casting the vote necessary to bring the change you want to see. The Republicans will stay in line so

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