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?
well, it sounds like things have definitely trended in the right direction. and the voters have spoken. and we have just a handful of things going. what kind of ground game did you have in district 18 against randy hopper? there was an amazing ground game that was put out there. people knocking on doors. pounding the phones. talking to their neighbors. doing whatever was necessary in order to convince them that they needed to make a change. but was there a strategy to this or were you just winging it, sending people out, ten people a day, 20 people tomorrow? i mean, was there a real concerted effort and strategy to all of this ground game? absolutely. and the organization we are wisconsin did an amazing job in making sure those people got out to the polls today. and we re seeing the fruits of that in this what you say 1,200-vote margin with just 3% left. all right. we ve got more results coming in. in district 8, with 67% of the vote being recorded, sandy pasch with 52% of
sandy pasch leading alberta darling. but it is still way too close to call. we ll continue with all of our updates and analysis here from madison, wisconsin on the last word with lawrence o donnell. i m ed schultz. stay with us. you re watching msnbc. [ male announcer ] summer is here. and so too is the summer event. now get an incredible offer on the powerful c300 sport sedan. but hurry before this opportunity.disappears. the mercedes-benz summer event ends august 31st.
but the democrats are leading. joining us now is state representative peter barker. peter, good to have you with us tonight. what do you make of this? well, it s an exciting night. and you can tell it s going to be a long night. we hope that it doesn t come down to a recount. we d love to see us win straight out. but it s going to be a very long and exciting night. what do you mean recall you mean a recount? a recount. and what is the state law in wisconsin for a recount? well, if it s a half a percent or less, then it s paid for by the district. if it s more than that, then the candidates have to pay. john erpenbach, senator with us tonight. your thoughts on these last two races going head to head, too close to call. what do you make of them? just the fact that as john said sandy pasch is doing as well as she s doing in what is
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? she s a wonderful candidate. i m hoping she comes through too. joining us now is scott ross with one wisconsin now. this gentleman has lead a terrific boots on the ground effort here in wisconsin. scott, your response to the results tonight. well, i think that this is far from over, and i think that the showing by the people of wisconsin in what has happened in this wonderful campaign on the progressive side, which involved two weeks ago they hit 1 million doors knocked here in the state of wisconsin, 12,000 volunteers stood up, called their neighbors, went door to door to make sure that governor walker, that he would not have the final say in all of this, and this is far from over. governor walker declared war on the middle class here in wisconsin when he hande