a 61% to 27% advantage. is there anything that changes that advantage. for instance if marco rubio were to be on the ticket, do you think there s any potential for changing that dine am snik. some potential, not much. vice presidential candidates don t usually give youio a big bump, maybe in that state. david said something with respect to president obama s support among ethnics and other democratic groups and it has everything to do with the fact that the republican party has gone so far to the right. we saw that in the election on women taking this to the 1950s and talking about contraception and on the issue of immigration, talking about the south deportation of 11 million people. i don t know a country in the world that has ever south deported 11 million people. when he said the dream act was a handout. that s out of the mainstream of what most people think. when he failed to stand up and
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
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 cont