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Desperation: Kloppenburg Files for Recount [UPDATED]

If you look at her educational background, you'd have to conclude that JoAnne Kloppenburg was a woman person of rare intelligence. If you consider her behavior, it's another matter.

Incorrectly believing that she had won the election for State Supreme Court Justice, defeating incumbent David Prosser in a vote that has been represented as a referendum on Governor Scott Walker's Budget Repair bill and the hullabaloo that surrounded it, Kloppenburg relied on AP totals showing her to have a 240 vote margin of about 1.5 million cast to declare victory, thank Prosser for his decades of service, and express her conviction that the margin would hold.

When it was discovered that Brookfield's totals, heavily in favor of Prosser, gave him a margin of over 7300, most observers believed that she couldn't possibly then put the state through the expense of a recount. Most observers were wrong. Despite Prosser's certified margin being 30 times the margin she was confident would hold in her favor, she has now asked for a recount.

Now you understand why she was passed over time and time again for lesser posts, even by Democrat Governors: she's an idiot. Undoubtedly, she has the right to ask for a recount, but she's done, finished, stick a fork in her as a serious contender for anything in Wisconsin.

On the other hand, Obama might have a use for her.

Little Miss Attila, on still another hand, deserves congratulations for surpassing one million visitors at her very excellent blog.

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Recall petitions being filed for three Democrat Wisconsin State Senators.

And the perfect Kos companion piece for Wonkette's sick post on Trig Palin:

Liberals attack Paul Ryan because his father died young, resulting in survivor benefits

UPDATE: William Jacobson, who's also followed the events in Wisconsin very closely, links to the Journal-Sentinel regarding the recount, as well as to Prosser's recount fund.

“I do not make this decision lightly ... I have weighed the options and I have considered the facts,” Kloppenburg, currently an assistant state attorney general, said. The tight margin — small enough to trigger a provision allowing the state to pay for the recount process — means that “the importance of every vote is magnified and doubts about every vote are magnified as well,” she said.

This is just another way of saying every vote is sacred, as long as it's for me. As was demonstrated above, the margin of victory was clear enough when she declared it, with 1/30th the spread that Prosser has. Now she will attempt to get a hand count, before which she will have to demonstrate that a machine recount would somehow likely be inaccurate.

I imagine this would be an appropriate time to break out my brother-in-law Patrick's p-shop.

Let's also look into those 30% or more of Dane County ballots that had votes for Kloppie only.

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