we re going to have up-to-date numbers flothroughout the hour. we ve got a live report from ed schultz in madison coming up. but again, we ve got one race in wisconsin. right now three democratic excuse me, three republican state senators have fended off democratic challengers. two democrats have picked off republican state senators. democrats need to pick up three seats in order to change the balance of power in the state senate. and this is the race that remains. the incumbent republican senator is alberta darling. the democratic challenger is sandy pasch. right now with 80% of precincts reporting, alberta darling is ahead 53% to 47%. results coming in for this race much slower than in the other races, but we will keep an eye on this as it happens throughout the night. we ll be live with ed schultz when we come back. introducing the schwab mobile app.
and it may be some time before we get results here. how do people feel? people feel really optimistic and upbeat. just the fact that we are that close in alberta darling s seat says an awful lot not only about sandy pasch but the issues, obviously, we feel are very, very strongly on our side. so optimism is still running very high. we know it s going to be very close. we know there s a pile of absentee ballots that are out there. and i really don t hope there s an overvote, or an overcount in waukesha county. that would ceremony taint things. so we re optimistic and we ll wait and see what happens. we ll be up here all night. democratic state senator john erpenbach of wisconsin, thank you once again for your time tonight, sir. enjoy the night. i really appreciate it. thanks, rachel. good to see you again. thank you. there s still a race to be decided in wisconsin state senate recall elections. there is a ton hanging in the balance. can we put up the latest board so we have the