Can you say "Governor Russ Feingold"?

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Can you say "Governor Russ Feingold"?
By Steve Kornacki

AP/Morry Gash

Russ Feingold


The question isn't really if Scott Walker and his fellow Wisconsin Republicans will suffer fallout from their surprise maneuver Wednesday night. It's how severe the fallout will be.

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The recall campaign will first target the handful of Republican senators who have already been in office for a year and are therefore eligible to be recalled. Petitions are already circulating in their districts. Walker himself is insulated through next January, when his first full year in office will be complete. Only then will his opponents be able to take out petitions to recall him. But that hasn't stopped more than a few Democrats from promoting their dream recall candidate: Russ Feingold, the former three-term senator who was flushed from office in last fall's anti-Democratic tide.

Feingold has played a visible role in the fight against Walker's plan, and issued a statement after last night's Senate vote that seemed to endorse the recall push. As I've written before, the breadth of Feingold's popularity in his state was something national observers tended to overstate. He never broke 55 percent in any of his three winning campaigns. But when it comes to the Democratic base, his appeal is deep and abiding. And in the right climate -- in other words, the current climate in Wisconsin -- he's certainly capable of winning a general election as the Democratic nominee.

He wouldn't be the first defeated senator to stage a quick comeback as a gubernatorial candidate. Lincoln Chafee, ousted by Rhode Islanders in 2006, just won that state's governorship as an independent last fall. Lowell Weicker, vanquished by Joe Lieberman in 1988, pulled off the same feat in Connecticut two years later. Feingold shares a quirky maverick streak with both of those men. It's not that hard to see him following in their footsteps.

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http://www.salon.com/news/russell_feingold/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/03/10/russ_feingold_governor_recall

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friend!! :hi:

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in 2016.

...did Feingold get flushed out. I thought he had enough progressive support that they would turn out!!!

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and I would just love to say President Feingold.

I bet he WILL be governor! :hi:

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To whom do I make out the check?

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All I've read from him are his statements on the WI issue and about the launching of Progressives United ... not a peep about really wanting to get back into active politics. He's supposed to start teaching at a U in the Milwaukee area (if he hasn't already) ...

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donate to his campaign if he were to run!