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
from madison, wisconsin our coverage continues. and this programming note. we will continue with coverage into the last word with lawrence o donnell tonight. let me bring you up to date. two republicans have been declared the winner in six of these races tonight. as expected, sheila harsdorf and also senator robert cowles. but we have more to report. 39% reporting in the 8th district. sandy pasch is leaving leading alberta darling 56% to 44% with 39% of the vote reporting. let s go now to senator lina taylor with us tonight here on the ed show. senator, good to have you with us. it s great to be with you, ed. what is this this would be considered a huge victory for the democrats if sandy pasch were able to pull this out. not even half the vote has been counted yet, but it is a good margin of a lead for her right
bargaining began here in wisconsin. education has always been a top priority in wisconsin. health care for women, for seniors and children is vital in this state. and all of them have taken a huge hit. but most importantly has been wisconsin democracy. and that s what s at risk here. and that s why it s so exciting to see the interest level, the enthusiasm. and i am still hopeful tonight. peter, thank you for joining us. and we want to report now, in the 32nd district, jennifer shilling is leading dan kapanke 55% to 45%. with 54% of the vote reporting. 54% of the vote reporting, shilling up by ten percentage points. 55% to 45%. [ male announcer ] this is the network. a network of possibilities.
that. and 87% we can report right now, 87% of the vote reporting, we ve got king and hopper in at 50% each. king is up by 137 votes. wow. did i tell you it was going to come up? did i tell you? so the magic number is three for the democrats. and the democrats are still within striking distance. i m telling you, man, those oshkosh voters. my dad was born in oshkosh, brother. they won t let you down there. but randy hopper s showing, adam, has been somewhat surprising, has it not? it has been. but again, the people hopefully will win out this race. i think it was just declared on msnbc that john nichols is the reigning champion when it comes to wisconsin coverage. so district 14 goes to the republicans. also district 10 goes to the republicans. and district 2 goes to the