Yeah, this is a done deal... no doubt about it now. The man has been one of the best Senators ever. Period. I just hope he can keep the margin respectable (within single digits).
I'm really curious. Why do you (and others not from WI) think Feingold was a great Senator? I'm not sure if you would still hold that opinion if you saw the footage from his town halls in 09, when he would roll his eyes and sigh at his constituents concerns about the upcoming passage of Obamacare. That didn't work for Al Gore and it began the slide of Russ Feingold in the polls. He was arrogant smug to the extreme, an he's paying for it now.
The whole Feingold phenomenon is fascinating to me. The national press loves him. The local press adores him. I can't recall a single critical story, or even semi-critical, in his entire tenure in Washington. But he's never been that popular locally. He ran a great underdog campaign to beat Kasten, but was fortunate to beat Mark Neumann in 98 when Neumann had the lead (around 2pts) with a few weeks to go but ran out of money and nearly went black and didn't make up for it by campaigning harder and lost by 2. Then he beat the underfunded Tim Michels (who ran a non-existent race) by spending him into oblivion. But I never sensed the affection that Herb Kohl gets (God knows why...probably because he saved the Bucks).
