Prosser/Kloppenburg: A Loss For The Left

As of now, this Wisconsin Supreme Court race is too close to call, with the incumbent conservative Justice Prosser leading by barely 600 votes over liberal firebrand/avowed judicial activist/admitted union tool JoAnn Kloppenburg.

The fate of Governor Scott Walker's agenda lies in the balance, of course, as Kloppenburg has essentially made it clear that she will void his new budget-balancing, union-busting legislation. Who cares if the state goes bankrupt? Kloppenburg has got backers to pay off....

First things first: I expect Kloppenburg to win. 600 votes is not enough to overcome the "margin of fraud" in states with a strong Democratic infrastructure. Expect mystery ballot boxes to appear in the 11th hour containing votes strictly for Kloppenbirg, votes that her machine will be quite disinclined to disallow. And as for the police preventing any fraud, well...if you saw their actions (or lack of) during the occupation of Wisconsin's state capital, you'll know they are the last ones to look towards to prevent election-rigging. You'd stand a better chance with the Mexican Policia....

But here's the key: With all of the screaming done by the Left, all of the support given by the media to their cause, all the money poured into the election by the unions, the best their candidate can do is hope to cheat their way in at the last minute. And this is in a state that is traditionally liberal...

What does that say about the level of attention the people of Wisconsin are paying to the issues at hand, as opposed to the noise machines around them? Barack Obama is attempting to raise $1 billion dollars (cue Dr. Evil) for his 2012 re-election effort. If an underfunded, obscure Republican judge can hold his own against violent leftist protests, biased media, and a ton of union cash, does it really matter how much money Obama spends in 2012?

As the 2008 election was allegedly about "change", it looks like 2012 is going to be strictly about the message, not the messenger or the packaging. And Barack Obama is a poor salesman with a defective product. No slick ad campaign is going to change that fact. Looks like Obama's going to have to win on substance. Uh oh... The people are listening. Just not to the unions, or the president....