Wisconsin judicial election testing GOP's power is a nail-biter

Many independent sites are following the Supreme Court election in Wisconsin but the reports are largely in the form of blog updates without the overall context that one looks for in such a crucial election. It's probably fair to say that many of these outlets are trying to parse the status and implications of the results thus far. In the mainstream the NY Times, for example, has not one current update on the election as of 2:07am on April 6. This is not only disappointing to me but shockingly tone deaf or worse, a deliberate effort to downplay the magnitude of the labor rights issue. The LA Times has done some solid reporting on the status of the intense battle for the Supreme Court in Wisconsin, a contest that will impact the national debate on labor rights, as well as the legality of the recent laws passed there that strip public sector workers of collective bargaining rights.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-wisconsin-election-20110406,1,2882467.story

A disconcerting detail has emerged that even if Kloppenburg wins this election, the conservative jurist David Prosser would not step down until August. Therefore, it is entirely possible that the Supreme Court in Wisconsin could hear the case against Gov. Walker's union-busting law passed in violation of open-meeting law while the Court still holds a 4-3 conservative-leaning majority. Nonetheless, a victory for the moderate JoAnne Kloppenburg would send a powerful message to those in the GOP who have targeted labor throughout the country.