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I’d been leaning towards Hovde, until he started running that mud-throwing ad.

Granted, I do not watch much TV or listen to radio all that often, but I’ve not seen or heard any of the candidates throwing mud at Hovde, as he claims. In fact, he’s the one throwing mud in the ad complaining of mud throwing.

So, I’ve cooled on Hovde.

I really like Fitzgerald. I like him right where he is, though he is leaving his current position, unfortunately, regardless. If he had the money and organization to go up against Baldwin, he’d be my first choice.

Assuming his new-found conservatism is genuine, how long would Thompson serve?

That leaves Neumann.

Granted, I do not watch much TV or listen to radio all that often, but I’ve not seen or heard any of the candidates throwing mud at Hovde, as he claims.

I listen to plenty of WI radio (Vicki McKenna on both Madison WIBA and Milwaukee WISN) and heard negative ads at Hovde by Neumann and Thompson.

I do think that Hovde's 24 years in Washington D.C. is something that Baldwin could easily use against him in a general election.

Neumann was pretty much forced to attack Hovde when it started to shapeup into a two-man race. I don't really trust Hovde, but I also don't blame him for returning fire, if his commercials are substantially accurate.

Granted, I do not watch much TV or listen to radio all that often, but I’ve not seen or heard any of the candidates throwing mud at Hovde, as he claims.

You must not watch ANY TV or listen to ANY radio. A surrogate outside group that employs former Neumann staffers began a blistering mud-throwing ad campaign more than a month ago. Neumann followed up with his nearly-identical official mud-throwing ads a week later. Those ads drowned out the positive ads Hovde has been running for the last 5 months.

Neumann is pursuing the same sort of distortion-filled (I will refrain from calling them pants-on-fire lies) campaign as he did during his dishonest 2010 gubernatorial primary campaign against Scott Walker.

Neumann should be the LAST candidate you consider.

I do like Fitzgerald, but Fitzy is from such a small town and has such a tiny base of support to run a statewide campaign that I'm not sure he would prevail against Baldwin and her union/Soros financing. On that basis alone, I will vote for the self-financed Hovde.

Tommy is just too old and too much of a GOP-e big spender for my tastes. And when he jumped in and began his own phony attack ads on Hovde, Tommy destoyed any feelings of goodwill he developed as our gaffe-prone loutish governor more than a dozen years ago.