Results for those paying attention

• Jane Carroll won the Milwaukee Circuit Court seat 54% to J.D. Watts' 46%.
  
  
• Interestingly, referendums calling for troop withdrawal from Iraq passed in 24 of 32 counties where they were on the ballot. Many of them were close, but the results are certainly disappointing for war proponents who wanted the referendums to go down to an embarassing defeat.
  
  
• More interestingly, the city of Waukesha voted in upset fashion, 53% to 47%, to elect longtime alderman Larry Nelson mayor over Republican State Rep. Ann Nischke. Nelson opposed the issue that Republicans are using as a rallying cry, the so-called Taxpayer Protection Amendment which restricts local control of budgeting. If even Waukesha is rejecting conservatives like Nischke now, maybe the times are a-changing.