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BEST ADS OF '98 Republican Mark Neumann ridicules Senator Russ Feingold's (D) support of methane testing by showing a fuddy-duddy scientist running around a field trying to catch cow farts in jars. Neumann lost, but this hilarious ad is a winner...
...election better exemplified the hope for a cleaner and more dignified brand of leadership than the Senate race in Wisconsin, where Russell D. Feingold held his seat against challenger Mark Neumann. Feingold waged a war of principle in his campaign by refusing to exceed a spending cap of $3.8 million and to honor the soft-money ban of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill, which continues to fail in the Congress. His challenger, on the other hand, accepted soft money contributions steered his way by Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ken), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee...
...TIME Midwest bureau chief Wendy Cole says Feingold compensated with hard work -- and a little luck. "Neumann ran a flood of negative TV ads that were a big turnoff for voters," she says, "Feingold might have gotten dragged into the mudfest, but he couldn't afford it." Feingold also concentrated his get-out-the-vote efforts in the Madison capital, where his local margin of victory -- 30,000 votes -- was the same as in the overall race. Feingold was no Jimmy Stewart; he approved a small number of Democrat issue ads paid for by the party. But Feingold showed...
MADISON, Wisc.: Is Mr. Smith alive and well and in Wisconsin? Russ Feingold, co-author of that quixotic campaign finance reform bill, won re-election Tuesday despite holding himself to the bill's strictures: no soft money and no thinly veiled "issue advocacy" ads. He won despite the fact that Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell, looking to kill McCain-Feingold while it slept, pumped GOP party money into the coffers of challenger Mark Neumann until Neumann was outspending Feingold...
Campaigning last week, Feingold was confident that the impeachment wranglings would mobilize his people too. "The level of partisanship has made a number of Democrats who thought of not voting think they should come out and make a statement," he said. Having sworn off the money that would have funded a sophisticated media campaign, Feingold doesn't have much more to lean on. Last week he made a campaign stop at Robinson Elementary School in Beloit, Wis. Fewer than 20 people attended--some local party officials, a few teachers and a handful of kids whose parents were late to pick...