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Election Wrap-Up

According to preliminary results, Shirley Abrahamson beat Randy Koshnick last night for the ten-year term on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court by 60% to 40%. In the State Superintendent of Public Instruction race, Tony Evers beat outsider Rose Fernandez by a 57% to 43% margin.

Both races were hard fought and intense, although decidedly low profile. Assuming that all four candidates spent all the money they raised, Abrahamson spent roughly $2.75 per vote to Koschnick’s $.39 per vote and Evers spent roughly $.42 per vote while Fernandez spent about $.24 per vote. The bulk of the special interest spending went to Abrahamson and Evers in the two statewide races.

The individuals, interest groups and PAC’s who cared about the balance of the State Supreme Court and the leadership in the Department of Public Instruction dug into their apparently deep pockets and got their people elected. Koschnick and Fernandez, who both ran intense, passionate races on shoestring budgets, were left footing the bill for two campaigns that, for one reason or another, did not receive the major fiscal support of conservative organizations and PAC’s.

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