turnouts in dane county suggest that kloppenberg has an immense number of votes still coming her way. if this stays 50/50, until those madison and dane county votes come in, you may well be looking at a change in this supreme court seat. >> a lot of out of state money on both sides coming into the state and a lot of grass roots work done from folks who don't live in wisconsin. how has that been received by wisconsinites? obviously it's having an effect. there's been a record turnout or not a record turnout but a big turnout. >> oh, yes. well, ed, it will be a record turnout for this sort of race and we could have as many as 1.5 million people voting. >> wow. >> and that compares to under a million often in past supreme court races so a big, big bump. now the outside spending is in the range when it's all added up probably going to be something around 6 to $7 million, unprecedented, so, yeah. did have an impact. no doubt. >> john nichols, washington correspondent of "the nation" stay with us. we have a lot more coming up to the top of the hour as we