The Wisconsin state Senate recalls of 2011 — in which tens of millions of dollars and countless man-hours were spent, almost resembling Congressional races — are officially over. Tuesday night, Democratic incumbents Jim Holperin and Robert Wirch fended off their Republican challengers, for a final state Senate margin of 17 Republicans to 16 Democrats, just shy of the Dems’ original goal of taking control of the chamber via recalls.
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