there are? i can tell you as a citizen of wisconsin i do have concerns now. you know, mistakes are going to happen. and i gave waukesha county the benefit of the doubt, as much as it was tough to, do back in the supreme court race. waukesha doesn t get the benefit of the doubt now. neither does cathy nicholas. this is two important elections in a row. and for her to sit on the results is absolutely astonishing. you know, tammy baldwin, who s a congressperson from madison, did ask for an investigation. and you don t want to play with the elections like this. you simply don t. just give us the truth. win or lose. we just want the truth. and waukesha county should have been one of the first counties reporting, not the last county to report. senator erpenbach, i ll just ask you one last question here because you ve got an amazing backdrop behind you, which is a whole lot of wisconsinites who are very engaged a lot of your fans, rachel. again, it s very flattering. but let me just
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
north shore suburbs, a little bit of the city of milwaukee, parts of ozaki, washington, and waukesha counties. and as you re mentioning, waukesha county is politically known to the rest of the country because of concerns about the county clerk there, who is i was talking with senator erpenbach a while ago, probably the only famous county clerk in the country right now. handling the overcount in the supreme court race. received some national attention, a lot of national criticism. it is almost impossible to believe that kathy nickolaus again is who the state of wisconsin and the nation is waiting on while that county cannot seem to get it together to get their votes out again. this is a republican stronghold county. she is a republican activist. are you worried i know you know a lot about wisconsin politics. are you worried that if it does come down to sort of election protection and election
well, john erpenbach and frid risser were talking investigation. and as i said a few minutes ago, i don t think these people are going to let this go whatsoever. sources are telling me there are people who are thing county closely. i think it s going to be in the news for weeks to come. as i said, you can t make it up and i don t think we re going to have a real decision here for quite some time. it s one for the archives new york doubt. and i think that s very aggressive on the part of mr. tate, who has worked tirelessly to get a successful outcome for the democrats. he knows the landscape as good as anybody in this state. i think it is a statement that s very accurate in that position. ed schultz joining us from madison, wisconsin. thank you, ed. and rachel, i just want to
saying all six of those races are eminently winnable. some of this, of course, is just a political animal barking into the wind, you have to look like a winner before you can be a winner, but we are one week away now, one week away from knowing if wisconsin republicans celebrated anti-union rights binge and the budget that went along with it, we are one week from learning whether or not that churned up a lot more than a lot of people s resentment. in one week we will find out if it has also churned up a majority of the vote. joining us now is jon erpenbach, he and 13 other state senators left the state in an attempt to halt passage of the union-stripping bill. senator erpenbach, good to see you. good to see you too and welcome back. thank you. things are going great for your side of things coming up to tuesday s elections.