I Have A STRONG Feeling Feingold Will Run For Governor and Steve Kagen Will

[Sportsguy]

run for Kohl's seat. I base this on conversation I had earlier tonight with people who would know. Sorry I can't say more.

[Yon_Yonson]

1. That works for me

[undeterred]

2. Other rumors I've heard around Madison...

Baldwin may run for Senate and if she does Jon Erpenbach may run for her Congressional seat... and Feingold is waiting to see how the recall elections turn out but he is more interested in running for Governor than anything else.

Honestly, I think Ron Kind has a better chance than either Kagen or Baldwin of winning the Senate seat. Kohl was a moderate Democrat and so is Ron Kind.

[GillesDeleuze]

4. erpanbach should run for senate

and tammy should keep the seat she can actually win

[undeterred]

5. I thought that too.

He got a lot of statewide and national visibility this year and he's obviousy very media savvy. I think he can raise the money. It seems like everything is up in the air until Feingold decides what he is going to run for, if anything.

[Ed Suspicious]

6. Couldn't agree more on Kind over Kagen.

and I would love Russ as a real pragmatic progressive in the governer's office. I am not sure Kagen has the political skills. And something about him, (just a gut feeling really) always felt shifty or uncomfortable or like he would go wherever the political winds would take him. I know you shouldn't go on your gut like that but it is what I is. I'd rather vote for someone I felt good about.

[undeterred]

7. Wisconsin is just so hard to figure.

This really is such a fifty:fifty state. We sure deserve to have a Democratic Senator after losing Feingold and getting stuck with Dumbass. I'm just not sure that the majority of Wisconsin is going to vote for a Madison liberal lesbian. And I'd hate to send 2 republican Senators to Washington.

Kagen is well known around the state because he did do a lot of fundraising in Madison and Milwaukee. He sure was a champion for the healthcare issues. I'd put him somewhere between Baldwin and Kind on the political scale... might be able to win the senate seat.

[GillesDeleuze]

8. problem is kagen couldn't even campaign against a fraudster

from a roofing company.

he literally lost to one of fox cities worst businessmen. he was a ripoff and a con-artist.

all for being somewhat competent on health care issues (for he is a doctor)...

[Ed Suspicious]

9. Yeah that was terribly annoying watching him get so

outgunned by Ribble.

[Ed Suspicious]

10. As far as on the issues,

I align with Tammy very strongly and hope she stays in office one way or another for a long time. Be that where she is now or if she did want to take a poke at the senate, but I think the proxmire roots of kind would be more appealing to people in rural WI.

[midnight]

3. All good stuff....

[tinwi]

11. Feingold as gov, that would be great