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Winnebago County vote-count change alters Supreme Court race — By Sharif Durhams of the Journal Sentinel — The latest vote count in the state Supreme Court race in Winnebago County indicates incumbent David Prosser is leading Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg in votes.
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Christian Schneider / National Review:
BREAKING: Computer Error Gives Prosser 7,381 More Votes, Almost Certain Victory — After Tuesday night's Wisconsin Supreme Court election, a computer error in heavily Republican Waukesha County failed to send election results for the entire City of Brookfield to the Associated Press.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: The greatest press conference of all time — Schadenfreude. — Alternate headline via Mary Katharine Ham, ever mindful of developing media narratives: “Small, state-wide election with vital national implications soon to have no national implications whatsoever.”
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JSOnline:
Corrected Brookfield tally puts Prosser ahead after 7,500-vote gain — By Jason Stein, Laurel Walker and Bill Glauber of the Journal Sentinel — In one explosive stroke Thursday, the clerk in a Republican stronghold tilted the tight Supreme Court race in favor of Justice David Prosser …
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Karoli / Crooks and Liars:
UPDATED: Conservative Waukesha County Clerk “Finds” 7,000 Votes For Prosser — 4:30pm Update: In her press conference about a half-hour ago, Kathy Nickolaus claimed she failed to import the results from Brookfield City into her master tally that was reported to the press.
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JSOnline:
Prosser's huge gain comes after Waukesha County flub is caught — By Laurel Walker of the Journal Sentinel — David Prosser gained 7,582 votes in Waukesha County, after a major counting error of Brookfield results was detected, County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus announced in a stunning development this afternoon.
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John Nolte / Big Government:
BREAKING IN WISCONSIN: Clerical Error Gives Prosser Net Gain of 7300+ Votes — By the time the votes in Wisconsin's State Supreme Court race were all counted the day after Tuesday's big election, Big Labor candidate, Joanne Kloppenburg, had a 204 vote lead out of almost 1.5 million cast.
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Daily Kos:
Why Prosser needed EXACTLY +7500 votes.... In WI, a recount at state-expense is triggered if an election is within .5% if the candidate requests it, and we have a fully verifiable paper trail to audit election results. That means in this election with approximately 740k for Kloppenburg and 739k for Prosser …
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620WTMJ:
Prosser Leads By 7,500 Votes After Brookfield Ballot Blunder — WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A stunning discovery of votes in Wisconsin could give the state's hotly contested Supreme Court race to the conservative incumbent in an election largely seen as a referendum on Republican Gov. Scott Walker's explosive union rights law.
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Brad Friedman / The BRAD BLOG:
BREAKING: Prosser Up by 7500+ in WI Supreme Court Race After ‘Database Error’ …
BREAKING: Prosser Up by 7500+ in WI Supreme Court Race After ‘Database Error’ …
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WisPolitics Election Blog:
Waukesha County clerk apologizes for ‘human error’ that led to reporting incorrect vote totals
Waukesha County clerk apologizes for ‘human error’ that led to reporting incorrect vote totals
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Prosser Now Up 7,000+ Votes After Error Is Corrected
Prosser Now Up 7,000+ Votes After Error Is Corrected
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Lisa Sink / brookfield-wi.patch.com:
Brookfield Gives Prosser Nearly 11K Votes
Brookfield Gives Prosser Nearly 11K Votes
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Randallmelchert / RandyMelchert.com:
Latest: Prosser Landslide!
Latest: Prosser Landslide!
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
It May Be a ‘Budget Battle,’ but Some Skirmishes Have Little to Do With Money — WASHINGTON — There are fights about money and fights about ideas, and the battle over a spending plan to keep the government open is increasingly centered on the latter. — The frenetic negotiations to avert …
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Scott Wong / The Politico:
Senate Dems craft short-term stopgap — Senate Democrats said Thursday they're working on their own short-term spending resolution to avert a government shutdown, a response to the Republican House-passed bill that President Barack Obama has threatened to veto.
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
White House Meeting on Budget Fails to End Impasse
White House Meeting on Budget Fails to End Impasse
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Ezra Klein / Bloomberg:
What's really holding up the budget deal
What's really holding up the budget deal
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama: I'll veto funding for the troops
Obama: I'll veto funding for the troops
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Riders Caused The Storm: Government Shutdown Looms Over Anti-Abortion And Anti-EPA Measures
Riders Caused The Storm: Government Shutdown Looms Over Anti-Abortion And Anti-EPA Measures
Washington Post:
White House talks fail to produce budget deal; House passes stopgap bill
White House talks fail to produce budget deal; House passes stopgap bill
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Obama vows to veto short-term bill
Obama vows to veto short-term bill
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Ludicrous and Cruel — Many commentators swooned earlier this week after House Republicans, led by the Budget Committee chairman, Paul Ryan, unveiled their budget proposals. They lavished praise on Mr. Ryan, asserting that his plan set a new standard of fiscal seriousness.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Dissents Of The Day — The in-tray is still bulging with fury over Paul Ryan.
Dissents Of The Day — The in-tray is still bulging with fury over Paul Ryan.
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The Incidental Economist and Balloon Juice
E.D. Kain / American Times:
Andrew Sullivan and the Paul Ryan Budget
Andrew Sullivan and the Paul Ryan Budget
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Henry Aaron / Health Affairs Blog:
Vouchers Or Premium Support: What's In A Name?
Vouchers Or Premium Support: What's In A Name?
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Jon Terbush / TPMDC:
Nearly Half Of Mississippi Republicans Think Interracial Marriage Should Be Illegal — Americans nationwide are evenly divided over the issue of same sex marriage. But Republicans in Mississippi are divided over a wholly different wedlock issue: interracial marriage.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Breaking down Trump's numbers
Breaking down Trump's numbers
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Myglesias / Yglesias:
The Trouble With Taxing Exclusively The Rich — In their sketch version of a budget (PDF) the Congressional Progressive Caucus makes a heroic effort to finance progressive government basically exclusively by raising taxes on rich people. — Specifically:
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
The People's Budget — Phil Klein has a leaked version …
The People's Budget — Phil Klein has a leaked version …
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Hampton Roads Daily Press:
FAA sets up no-fly zone for Obama's planned trip to Williamsburg — The leader of the free world may be coming to Williamsburg for some rest and relaxation if Congress is able to come to agreement on the budget. President Obama and the First Family are planning to visit the area this weekend …
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Lewis Page / The Register:
Wind power: Even worse than you thought — But your 'leccy bill will keep going up to buy more of it — A new analysis of wind energy supplied to the UK National Grid in recent years has shown that wind farms produce significantly less electricity than had been thought …
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