Democratic Senate Campaign Committee

Wisconsin's Russ Feingold in Peril, But Still Practicing 'I Did It My Way' Politics

RACINE, Wis. – After 18 years in Washington, Russ Feingold remains the senator who has built his career and his voting record around (hat tip: Oscar Wilde) the importance of being earnest. High-minded, idiosyncratic and sometimes exasperating to his fellow Democrats, the 57-year-old Feingold was the only senator to vote against the Patriot Act in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and this year was the only Democrat to oppose Barack Obama's Wall Street reform act, arguing that it was not tough enough. But Feingold is facing the toughest re-election campaign of his career (although his 1998 ...

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