Prosser Picks Up Waukesha County With 7,500 Votes!

Hmm, now it's a rout!

At Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, "Prosser gains 7,500 votes in Waukesha County" (at Memeorandum).

Now this is the best! Ann Althouse has a post on Richard Hasen's commentary at Politico, "Wis. court election courts disaster." See, "Don't talk about fraud! Fraud?! There is no fraud! Pay no attention to those... those... those... frauders!":

Don't dare say fraud!

While the fraud allegations [in various recent elections] remain stuck in the public’s mind, no proof of any systemic fraud has been unearthed. Instead, close examination of elections show, time and again, that our election systems are not perfect – but this is due to human error and not fraud.... [I]f the Wisconsin Supreme Court race goes into extra innings, I expect things to become especially contentious and partisan.

To become contentious and partisan? It's been ridiculously contentious and partisan here in Wisconsin since mid-February. It's hard to understand why the Republicans should stand down now. Prosser was way ahead and would have easily won if Democrats hadn't turned what was supposed to be a nonpartisan election into a referendum on the Republican governor they hate. It took Prosser a long time to realize he had to fight like a politician and not just sit quietly modeling traditional judicial demeanor. Outrageous, dirty politics was played against the old jurist, and he had little idea what to do about it. Now, his advocates are supposed to play nice so things won't get ugly? We've been in uglyville since February.

Word.

The Political Carnival's already suspicious, and at Firedoglake: "Now this could approach scandal territory. Let’s see where it goes."

Right. Scandal.

More at POWIP: "Prosser Takes the Lead by . . . 7500 Votes?"