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...Russ Feingold's life were a movie, it would be The Candidate, the 1972 film in which Robert Redford plays a handsome young lawyer running for the U.S. Senate as a clean-playing liberal unbought by the political establishment. In 1992, as a handsome 39-year-old Harvard Law graduate, Feingold got elected to the Senate from Wisconsin by promising to play clean and refusing to be bought by the political establishment. There's just one twist: at the end of the movie, Redford sells out to win; but in his first term, Feingold has remained the Senate Democrat...
...rumpled blue-eyed splendor, showed up in Madison, Wis., last week to stump for the candidate who most closely resembles The Candidate. "I don't do this very often," Redford told fellow party loyalists Wednesday night. "But I'm here because he believes in us." And because Feingold needs him desperately: the incumbent is currently lodged in a dead heat in his race against Republican Congressman Mark Neumann. The reason: Feingold not only limited his campaign spending and refused soft money; he also discouraged ads from advocacy groups attacking Neumann--positions consistent with the campaign-finance-reform bill he sponsored...
...Feingold has done his best to take advantage of his iconoclastic campaign. He calls it "an experiment in American government," and has taken to pronouncing himself "the big underdog," targeted by a money-loving Republican establishment. "They're dying to take the Feingold off McCain-Feingold," he says. Neumann, a former math teacher and homebuilder, argues that Feingold isn't the goody-goody he claims to be: over Feingold's objections, the League of Conservation Voters and the AFL-CIO have run a few advocacy ads criticizing Neumann. "It would be O.K. if he weren't such a hypocrite about...
...election may turn on how voters respond to such bile. Feingold says he plans to go "intensely positive" with his own advertising blitz in the next weeks, banking on backlash votes from reform-minded moderates turned off by Neumann's negative ads and the campaign-finance system that supports them. Neumann, elected to Congress in 1994 as a number-crunching budget cutter, has aimed his recent TV spots at Feingold's vote against a ban on partial-birth abortions and at his opposition to a constitutional amendment outlawing flag burning. The idea is to whip social conservatives into a holy...
...1960s and '70s were a different matter. John Wayne was a Mason, which meant the protest generation wasn't. Nor did '80s antiestablishmentarians-turned-entrepreneurs feel much affinity toward a group of admitted joiners who perceived squareness as a virtue. That left the war veterans and youngsters like Feingold, now 62, who was taken under the wing of a brother in his Queens neighborhood in 1960. The man was a stickler for ritual and dragged Feingold up onto a Forest Hills roof at night so that he could recite in secret. But the then-apprentice has no regrets. He remains...