Rachel Maddow said Feingold lost because he didn't get full DNC support...

[cynatnite]

Feingold went his own way rather than do everything the Dems did. He didn't vote for the Patriot Act, Wall Street Reform, and HCR.

If she's right, then the DNC is more responsible for losing Feingold than anyone else or any one group.

[Larkspur]

1. But I thought Obama held a rally in Madison, WI

a few weeks ago and Feingold was there and gave a speech?

I'll wait to read what John Nichols has to say about Feingold's loss.

[babylonsister]

3. You're right, he did. I'd rather blame the residents of WI for

voting the wrong way. They knew/know Feingold, have for years. What were they thinking and what was their problem?

[dorktv]

2. I can believe that...Things suck at the DNC because they cannot be

bother to go with what works.

[hayu_lol]

4. I agree with the OP...

somewhere, somehow, Feingold made someone up high unhappy and was punished for it. Many are correct when they infer that Dean would have seen to it that Feingold would have had the necessary support he needed...no matter what he might have done.

The man was an effective leader in all respects. Sometimes that means going against the flow. He was asked to consider a run at the presidency...he chose not to stating that he was happy where he was. That might have set something off in the party machinery. We will probably never know.

[KittyWampus]

5. She actually said he lost because he was downwind of an unpopular Dem Governor

who was not up for reelection and who made hard but extremely unpopular decisions like worker furloughs.

[Qutzupalotl]

6. That's not what I heard.

I heard he turned down DNC help on principle. He really believes in campaign finance reform.

[elfin]

7. I think this is right

He DISTANCED himself from Obama until the latter stages of the campaign. He relished his "maverick" image to the point that it did him in.

What a loss - Johnson is an idiot who only had the brains to marry well, take credit for his father-in-law's company and get money money money from his own pockets and from mysterious sources.

Russ always won close elections and thought he could do it again -- but his integrity kept him out of the big money.

Wisconsin is taking a ride on the stupid train to nowhere.

[socialshockwave]

8. If that's the case,

He is more of a Democrat and progressive then those DINO's are.

[Greyhound]

9. There is no doubt that they cut Grayson loose, so I wouldn't be at all surprised

if this turns out to be true.

[Citizen Worker]

10. There's no room for a progressive in the DLC corporate tent.