it s the last word with lawrence o donnell. i m ed schultz reporting live tonight here on msnbc from madison, wisconsin as the results continue to come in. the race we are now waiting for is in the 8th district, suburban milwaukee. and at this hour 67% of the votes having been counted, sandy pasch is leading alberta darling 52% to 48%. she is up by roughly 1,200 votes. we are told that some of the votes are not coming in. coming in a little bit slow, in fact. john nichols, nation magazine, what are you hearing on the ground in this district? well, here s what we know. this district is going to end up with a close result. perhaps even in the recount zone. because waukesha county, which was such a problematic county in
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well, what i know for sure about that race is that the milwaukee numbers, i ve not received a call in on those, and there are absentee ballots that are still out. so no matter what the numbers show, until those absentee ballots are counted, we ve not we re not going to concede. so you re saying we may not have a decision tonight in that race? i won t say that. i ll say that it will take a little longer because those absentee ballots need to come in and once they come in i think they re going to favor the woman who s passionate about the people. are you surprised at the showing by sandy pasch? you know, it is very surprising. i mean, let s remember, we re playing on the republicans territory here. these are republican districts. these are districts, as you stated, that walker won. taking out alberta darling is a huge task. so i m surprised that sandy was able to do so strongly in the district. but she s such a great candidate. and the people were very disgusted by what albe
state senate hangs on this race. incumbent senator alberta darling trying to fend off a democratic challenge from sandy pasch. this was said to be the hardest-fought and perhaps best-fought campaign on the part of any of the democratic challengers. as we watch those results coming in tonight, we ll be joined live next from madison, wisconsin by our own ed schultz. stay with us. the 3.6-liter v6 engine of the jeep grand cherokee has a best-in-class driving range of over 500 miles per tank. so you can catch morning tee time in pebble beach and the afternoon meeting in los angeles all without running out of gas. just make sure you don t run out of gas.
but how many absentee ballots do you think went out in that district? i don t know for sure, but i ll say on one day in particular i knew that they had taken at least 700 people to early vote. so arguably there s more than 700 out because that was one day. let s go to fred rhyser, state senator. senator, good to have you with us tonight. there s been a lot of positive comments tonight about the democratic showing, but i only see one victory so far. how do you give it what s your analysis of that? i am optimistic. we really won tonight. on every race we almost won if we didn t win. we made we won a couple battles and we re going to keep going until we do win the war. well, the magic number is three. you re still leading with two other democrats after one has already won. do you think jessica king can beat randy hopper? absolutely. and what about sandy pasch with alberta darling?