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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumswoot,woot,woot: In Wisconsin Feingold leads Johnson in Senate poll 54% to 38%
Russ Feingold hasn't announced he's running for his old U.S. Senate seat yet, but all signs say it's only a matter of time. And a poll of Wisconsin voters released on Thursday indicates he could fare well in the 2016 election.
If the 2016 U.S. Senate race were held today, Feingold, who recently left his post as the State Department's special envoy to the Great Lakes Region of Africa, would likely defeat Sen. Ron Johnson, the conservative Republican who unseated him in 2010, according to a Marquette University Law School Poll released Thursday.
Feingold, who has not said whether he plans to challenge Johnson, has the support of 54 percent of registered voters in Wisconsin. Thirty-eight percent of voters would support Johnson, while 9 percent have no preference.
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HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Progressives United...went for years with none of that.
So something has come alive. I'm not quite sure what that is as the website also has been boosting Sanders for president.
Unlike a run for president that has to cover the country, announcing for the WI senate seat doesn't have to get started for a long while
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Further proof the Senate is very much in play.
Lucky Luciano
(11,264 posts)Wtf is that? It is illogical and a total disconnect.
Pharaoh
(8,209 posts)we elected Obama twice, yet voted for Walker 3 times?
We voted overwhelmingly for 2 referendums, (unbinding, like whats the point of that!) Which Walker was against and Burke was for.
It does not compute Will Robinson,
I continue to feel votes were stolen to Favor Walker via electronic means....
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Like this:
In 1968, Arkansas voted for
1) a progressive Republican for governor (Winthrop Rockefeller)
2) a liberal "dove" Democrat for US Senate (J. William Fulbright)
3) a segregationist for President (George Wallace)
MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)Madison (to an extent Milwaukee as well which has a lot of minorities that are essentially 21st century sugregated) and a bunch of grouchy old racists in the suburban WOW counties.
The deep suburbs / rural areas / farmers are more 50-50 split.
The grouchy old racists in the WOW counties vote in EVERY ELECTION. Midterm Wisconsin is like Kansas.
When the college kids and minorities vote in general elections, it is more reflective of an upper midwest / new england / west coast voting pattern.
Pharaoh
(8,209 posts)MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)And it's bigger than just WI. We just get whacked over the head with it
mountain grammy
(26,661 posts)Walker's election and re-election never did make sense. The fix was in. He'll be president.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)to be outside the realm of election theft.
If you look at ALL of Walker's wins here, a swing of just 3% is enough for the election to go the other way.
And there is evidence of it in other states at multiple levels of government
a kennedy
(29,728 posts)If he get the presidency I WILL MOVE TO IRELAND, I PROMISE. I'm gone if he gets it.
mountain grammy
(26,661 posts)Pharaoh
(8,209 posts)and its spot on to what I've always thought.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)IIRC she was from somewhere in Nebraska
mountain grammy
(26,661 posts)to the legislature. I don't see any mention of legislature elections in the article.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)lean democratic. In statewide elections, during general election years when urban voter turnout is stronger, dems do better. It's why WI has gone blue in presidential elections for 30 years.
dems, in general, here are pretty worn down on pro-corporate / anti-labor dems. I'm not at all sure it can go blue without something different in the offing
Feingold -is- different, he's not pro-corporate, if he comes in it may lift dems.
Pharaoh
(8,209 posts)http://scottwalkerwatch.com/category/gerrymandering/
Its been well documented where 2012 was the year of gerrymandering where Republicans on a national scale used secretive partisan re-drawing of district boundaries to turn elections where, even though Democrats received 1.4 million more votes in House of Representatives races, Republicans gained control of the House by a 234
mountain grammy
(26,661 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)Overseas
(12,121 posts)mountain grammy
(26,661 posts)One of the really good ones.
Gothmog
(145,722 posts)Ron Johnson is a nasty person and needs to be voted out