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 really a pretty hardcore republican part of the state says an awful lot about sandy pasch s support. but more importantly, it sends a
one wisconsin now. what can you tell us about district 18? 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, wi
darling had but sandy pasch had people power like you could not believe. crowds and crowds of people out there knocking on doors. and we re now reporting 43% of the vote in. pasch leading. she s holding the lead 55% to 45% with 33% of the vote being counted. adam green? straight out. history has been made tonight. in the entire history of wisconsin only four recalls have been attempted for legislative races. we just won one. it s huge. it s huge. and no one has ever won where there wasn t some sort of legal issue or some sort of scandal. here you re having somebody win a race on the basis of an issue and that issue is labor rights. folks, you re watching you are watching political history unfold here tonight. there were only, up to tonight, 20 recalls since 1913. 13 of those recalls nationally
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 handed out $2.3 billion in tax breaks to
have won and the other three very close for the democrats. what do you think? well, hope is absolutely still alive. three is the magic number. and amazing credit goes out to the boots on the ground. the people of wisconsin who have really been knocking on doors and doing so much leg work. but i do want to say this. there s one of those three races i m really looking at most from a national perspective and that is sandy pasch versus alberta darling. this has been ground zero in the national republican war on working families. not only scott walker s budget but paul ryan s plan to end medicare medicare. and sandy pasch, sandy pasch and alberta darling are in paul ryan s neck of the woods, right around milwaukee. so if sandy pasch wins this, that is a bad omen for paul ryan next year. let s go to district 18, though, adam. isn t this somewhat of a surprising showing by randy hopper? there were many people that thought that jessica king was going to be able to go away with that. and 87