[good_ole_texas_boy]

Question: What are his chances?

[Wally_Kalbacken]

A. Slim and none.

Regrettably - Feingold has a lock on Wisconsin. I've told this story before but in 1998 Mark Neumann had a 40,000 vote plurality in the rest of the state until Dane County came in and Feingold picked up enough to win by more than 20,000 votes. Dane County and Milwaukee county have such disproportionate effect that even a candidate strong in the rest of the state cannot win on that alone. 

Feingold has great personal integrity and cannot be assailed on that aspect. But you would think that his indifference to freedom of political speech and his position on the Patriot Act, etc. etc. etc. would render him vulnerable. Alas, not in the state of Wisconsin.

[JohnnyZ]

Question: What are his chances?

To win the primary: 1 in 4
To win the general election if he's the nominee: 1 in 3

I think he'd be our strongest general election candidate.

Russ Feingold does NOT have personal integrity -- he's a little worm like all the others -- but he does have that image.

[ServesURight]

Question: What are his chances?

Feingold's support is mostly in Milwaukee and Madison. He barely won his Senate seat in 1998 against Mark Neumann, who ran a solid conservative campaign. A lot of union workers and swing voters may vote for Michels due to his business background.