With numbers this bad, I've got to wonder if Johnson isn't considering bowing out.
Unlikely, but if he does, the question is who to run in his place. Tommy Thompson isn't going to try again after his 2012 embarrassment, Walker is running for President, Glenn Grothman (WI-6) isn't going to leave the house after just 1 term, Paul Ryan (WI-1) probably wants to stay in the house.
Republicans would be left with a choice between Fmr. Rep. Tom Petri (WI-6), Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (WI-5), Rep. Sean Duffy (WI-7) and Rep. Reid Ribble (WI-8). WI experts, which of these would be most likely to get the nomination in the event of a Johnson retirement, and would they have a better chance of beating Feingold than Johnson does?
There is no way in hell Tom Petri or Jim Sensenbrenner run for Senate.
