{"id":184268,"date":"2012-06-15T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/06\/15\/theres-going-to-be-a-recount-in-wisconsin-senate-race\/"},"modified":"2012-06-15T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T00:04:00","slug":"theres-going-to-be-a-recount-in-wisconsin-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/06\/15\/theres-going-to-be-a-recount-in-wisconsin-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s Going to Be a Recount in Wisconsin Senate Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/chi-wis-gop-lawmaker-asks-for-recount-in-recall-race-20120615,0,122212.story\">is no surprise<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>A Republican Wisconsin state senator asked Friday for a recount in the election that could hand Democrats their only victory in this month&#8217;s six recalls, and at least a temporary majority in the state Senate.<\/p>\n<p>An official canvass this week showed incumbent Racine Republican Van Wanggaard trailing Democratic challenger John Lehman by 834 votes, or 1.2 percent of the nearly 72,000 votes cast.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats had called on Wanggaard to concede, saying a recount would only waste taxpayer money and delay the inevitable. But Wanggaard&#8217;s campaign said it was concerned about reports of voting irregularities and wanted to ensure the outcome was accurate.<\/p>\n<p>The state Senate currently has 16 Democrats and 16 Republicans, meaning the winner of the Wanggaard-Lehman race will give his party majority control. The victory, however, could be largely symbolic. The Legislature isn&#8217;t expected to convene again until January, and the November elections could cause the balance of political power to shift once again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course he&#8217;s asking for a recount.<\/p>\n<p>800 votes objectively does not seem like many, but it&#8217;s 1.2%, which is well nigh insurmountable.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s (mostly) about being a dick, and perhaps about delaying control of the professional staff in the Senate by the Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is no surprise: A Republican Wisconsin state senator asked Friday for a recount in the election that could hand Democrats their only victory in this month&#8217;s six recalls, and at least a temporary majority in the state Senate. An official canvass this week showed incumbent Racine Republican Van Wanggaard trailing Democratic challenger John Lehman &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}