state of wisconsin. if you voted for kloppenberg, no matter what your ideology is, you re just part of that world that s driven by madison, you know those socialists. you re not part of the majority of wisconsin. tea party back congressman sean duffy who says he s struggling on $174,000 a year in a federal salary, the congress took walker s premise even further after that statement, look at the end result. what does that say about where kiss kissites are if that s where all the motivation was but that was the vote total. so duffy believe that an unknown candidate closing a 30-point gap in six weeks against a candidate who won 99% the last time out is no big deal. really. how about the 19 counties that went for scott walker in 2010 flipping over to kloppenberg.
madison and a world driven by everybody else out across the majority of the rest of the state of wisconsin. if you voted for kloppenberg, no matter what your ideology is, you re just part of that world that s driven by madison, you know those socialists. you re not part of the majority of wisconsin. tea party back congressman sean duffy who says he s struggling on $174,000 a year in a federal salary, the congress took walker s premise even further after that statement, look at the end result. what does that say about where kiss kissites are if that s where all the motivation was but that was the vote total. so duffy believe that an unknown candidate closing a 30-point gap in six weeks against a candidate who won 99% the last time out is no big deal. really. how about the 19 counties that went for scott walker in 2010
tacks. dick luger said he would come out and vote for the republican proposal. 61 won t make it, 10 won t make it and defections of the house of the senate republicans isn t going to affect that 61 billion number. that 61 billion number is the outer edge. even if they defect everybody knows they will get to 35 or 40. the 61 billion lives and breathes. what we don t know what the vote total will be at the end of the day don t be surprised if there are no republican defections. the words coming out of the luncheon is that we don t like exactly some of the thing that they ve cut in there but we like the message. they know it s not going to pass. all right. ken strickland, major garrett. read major s piece on john ensign. call in the candidates.
remember, during the campaign, she spent most of her time telling people, how to vote for her, not necessarily why they should vote for her and, it paid off. 89% of the votes counted yesterday, write in votes were not challenged. they were good spellings of murkowski. 8% were challenged over minor spelling errors or in some cases even when it was spelled correctly, i witnessed that myself and the miller observer said he couldn t quite read it and they were added to the murkowski vote total, when official disagreed and the murkowski campaign is exasperated over all of the challenges. listen: it is supposed to be an election and not a spelling contest or penmanship contest, and, if the intent of the voter can be determined, we simply believe it should be counted. and we believe the state of alafb alaska believes the same. martha: reporter: the elections director says if she can phonetically sound it out,
notice, when you take a look at the races that we have been watching, the senate races. right up here in washington, talking about patty murray and dino rossi. you can see 17,000 votes between the two of them. here s the history of this. back in the presidential race, this was a huge democratic state, washington went to barack obama by 18 points. the last time patty murray ran oops, there is two what are they doing there? i don t know. the last time patty murray ran, that s 2004, she was a big winner by 12 points. that s some of the history, as you look at the vote total, coming in. her big support comes, obviously from, seattle, as you can see the blue. i really like the blue and the red, it helps me tell the story. it s working for me. i gotta admit.