What happened with Lassa and Schilling?

[Jimbo S]

As much as I was stunned on Wednesday morning, adding to that astonishment was seeing Sens. Lassa defeated and Schilling hanging by a thread. These races weren't on my radar. Anyone know the situation behind their defeats? Poor campaigning? Advertisements? Trump effect?

[ewagner]

1. Teske ...was running strong

he did a lot of door-to-door and was running tv ads of his own..

a friend of mine who is close to the Republicans in Madison told me that during the last week-ten days of the campaign, the REPUBLICAN SENATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE (RSCC) sunk close to $100,000 in TV saturation ads in the Wausau area. The ads painted Julie as a professional politician who "ran away from her job" and "still collected her tax-payer funded paycheck". Of course they were talking about the Democratic Senate maneuver to deprive the Senate of a quorum and stall/stop ACT 10.

I saw those commercials...at one point there were three of them run consecutively during the 9 o'clock news on the FOX Wausau affiliate.

It made me sick to my stomach.

Julie carried Plover but lost in the more rural sections of her district and especially in Wood County where Trump turned out to be very strong...

[Jimbo S]

2. Very disheartening

One again, good guys lose, corporatists win.

[jodymarie aimee]

4. Patrick Testin

and he is the head of the R party in my county of Portage.

[ewagner]

5. Oops

Sorry.

I was absolutely convinced that Julie was invincible in that district and didn't pay much attention to the race until a Republican friend told me about the infusion of $$$$ into the rep campaign on the Monday before the election.

Sorry for the mistake.

[a kennedy]

3. Jennifer won by 56 votes......

Dan Kapanke IS requesting a re-count. Hopefully she can hold on.

http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/kapanke-to-seek-recount-in-nd-senate-race-shilling-wins/article_c43c00b8-5872-51aa-b855-7a19940c02f1.html

[a kennedy]

6. Woohoo, Shilling lead grows to 60 votes in first day of Senate recount

Some good news:

State Sen. Jennifer Shilling extended her lead over Republican challenger Dan Kapanke by four votes in the first day of a recount.

Shilling defeated Kapanke by just 56 votes out of more 89,000 ballots cast in the 32nd District race, which pitted the Senate minority party leader against the Republican she unseated in a 2011 recall.

The La Crosse Democrat picked up a net total of seven votes Monday, according to reports filed with the Wisconsin Elections Commission. Kapanke gained three votes. Less than a quarter of the ballots were recounted on the first day of the recount.

Kapanke petitioned for the recount, alleging that counting mistakes were committed in each of the more than 130 voting wards that make up the district.

http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/shilling-lead-grows-to-votes-in-first-day-of-senate/article_852eec6c-7890-57c5-a9d6-7101d4d7c4e6.html