reportedly still not returning its results. we don t have them in yet. until people the crowd knows what that means. the crowd is scared. in waukesha county you had problems in the supreme court race. and we are getti inting repo athat with david prosser and cloppenberg, the challenger. yeah. what happened in those votes? with the supreme court race? yes. two days after the election was called for clappenberg, the challenger, the county clerk there found 14,000 votes she had forgotten to count. and what are we seeing tonight in that district? what we re seeing is something different tonight. what we re seeing tonight is just these results aren t being reported. everybody s saying where s waukesha county, where are those numbers? because this is a very close race. we expect waukesha county will help alberta darling. but the question is how much is it going to give her? if it doesn t give her that much, sandy pasch can win this race. i also understand there ar
welcome back to the ed show. as our coverage continues of the recall elections here in madison, wisconsin. and in the six districts throughout the state two of the six have been called for the republicans and joining us now is john nichols, washington correspondent of the nation magazine. john, great to have you back. you ve been giving us some great insight through all of this. what we are seeing right now is sandy pasch in the 8th district, suburban milwaukee, leading alberta darling. this is labeled as a democratic hopeful. how do you read this one? well, i m a little surprised here because sandy pasch started out weak and then as some of these numbers have come in she has opened up and kept that lead going. now, that is a complex district, though, ed, because in that district it s so divided.
with 52% of the vote and alberta darling with 48% of the vote. pasch is up by 1,200 votes. i ll tell you what, folks. what you are witnessing tonight here on msnbc is national political history. it is a recall effort that is well funded, very intense, and down to the wire. lena taylor? it s unprecedented. as a matter of fact, this will be the largest number of recalls that we ve won in the state s history. and more importantly, i think what you re seeing is people are fed up. and at the very least people have said we re not happy we are now excuse me. we are now hearing that district 18 the projected winner is democrat jessica king.
when you get down to the legislative races, whether it s state assembly or in the state senate, they go more so for the person that they know. they know alberta darling. and given the race that she s in tonight, they re not real thrilled to death with her metamorphosis over time moving to the far, far right. but in the end, ed, if you do take these issues statewide, and we re playing in the back yard of the republicans right now and we re doing as well as we re doing, it says a lot about what people in wisconsin as a whole feel. so how big would it be if you did get three seats tonight? if jessica king wins, if sandy pasch comes through, how big is that going to be to get these three seats? it would be huge, not only here in the state of wisconsin, but it would send a message to all the republican governors all throughout the country and the republican houses throughout the country that you d better not mess with the middle class anymore because they will stand up and fight. do y
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