Wisconsin Senate Recall-a-palooza: 2012 Edition

[Dgov]

So how does this work on the ballot? Is there just a new election that the incumbent can run in? A new election that is valid only if a simultaneous recall question is approved?

In Wisconsin, once the petitions are certified, the recall has occurred. The subsequent election is like any other general election, unless more than one member of the out-party decides to run, then there is a primary and 8 weeks later, a general election.

So in theory the "recalled" official could decide to not even run?

isn't that how it is will all recall elections?  Gray Davis wasn't even on the ballot in his recall (though that was because he was supporting a "no" vote on the actual recall provision)

[Dgov]

Prosser - 752,323
Kloppenburg - 745,007
Scattering - 1,550

7,316 vote margin. Just under 0.5%.

Thanks.  There will be a free recount if Kloppenburg requests one, then.

Its not like it would matter all that much.  Recounts in WI only cost like $20,000 i think.
Though it would probably make her look like a sore loser, so i don't know.

[Dgov]

Jim Holperin is the first Democrat to face a recall.

Is he the one from the ~55% Walker district?

[Dgov]

SD-18

King(D): 50%
Hopper(R): 47%

I thought Hopper was doomed, as opposed to trailing but not to be written off.  Maybe he is doomed, I don't know.  What do people think now?

Unlike the other vulnerable Rpeublicans, he's just an unpopular incumbent in a fairly Republican district, so it might be that the recent Hyper-partisanship in Wisconsin is helping him out.