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2016 Postmortem

KamaAina

(78,249 posts) Thu Jun 7, 2012, 12:44 AM Jun 2012

Why wasn't Tammy Baldwin, or better still, Russ Feingold, the recall candidate? [View all]

Instead we had to settle for the same guy who got whipped by Wanker in 2010. And he got slapped in the face again, this time literally.

More to the point, why can we only win if we have a once-in-a-generation rock star candidate like Obama, but they can win with any old frat boy who got a coed knocked up? (that could be either Wanker or Bush**, by the way)?

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Why wasn't Tammy Baldwin, or better still, Russ Feingold, the recall candidate? [View all] KamaAina Jun 2012 OP

Feingold is on the POTUS reelection team as a campaign co-chair. MADem Jun 2012 #1

Last I checked Baldwin is running for the Senate. DURHAM D Jun 2012 #3

I hope her seat goes to a Dem! nt MADem Jun 2012 #4

Her seat is in a heavily democratic district and will go democratic. WI_DEM Jun 2012 #9

.... MADem Jun 2012 #12

Because neither Tammy Baldwin nor Russ Feingold won the recall primary, right? TheDebbieDee Jun 2012 #2

Kidding, right? mahina Jun 2012 #5

that's what a number of us were wondering. marasinghe Jun 2012 #6

Because they didn't want to lose? MrSlayer Jun 2012 #7

Feingold was asked many times, but he didn't want to--Baldwin running for Senate. WI_DEM Jun 2012 #8

If Feingold couldn't retain his Senate seat in WI frazzled Jun 2012 #10

Actually, I thought the problem was that we had the same candidate who had just been beaten KamaAina Jun 2012 #11

A loss (especially a narrow one) isn't a referendum on one's entire career Hippo_Tron Jun 2012 #14

Maybe they didn't want it. JNelson6563 Jun 2012 #13