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<p>Feingold. The poll further showed Darrow with the highest name identification of any Republican candidate.</p>

For the following slate of Republican challengers for Senate this fall, please tell me whether you are familiar with each candidate or not. Are you familiar with… Familiar With NOT Familiar With Don’t Know Refused Q7a. Russ Darrow 55% 44% 1% 0% Q7b. Tim Michels 17 84 0 0 Q7c. Bob Welch 46 52 2 0 Q7d. Robert Lorge 14 85 1 0 If the election were held today, which of the Republican candidates would you like to see in the general election against Senator Feingold? (Note: the names were randomly rotated, i.e., Russ Darrow was not the first person...

MILWAUKEE -- Campaign commercials, debates, fundraisers and signature drives are the bread and butter of campaigns, but Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Russ Darrow has added a twist. More than 600 people crowded the Pabst Theater last night to see a ``movie premiere,'' which amounted to a roughly nine-minute, commercial criticizing Democratic U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold’s voting record and positioning Darrow as “the right Russ” for Wisconsin. The Darrow ``movie'' claimed Feingold's moves to reform campaign finance reform were motivated by ambition and had done nothing to help the state's economy. It panned Feingold's annual 72-county ``listening sessions'' and claimed Feingold...

It sounds almost too good to be true. State Sen. Bob Welch raised better than half a million dollars last year in his bid to challenge U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold this fall, yet his campaign paid staffers for its fund-raiser, Gateway Ventures, a mere $1,400 in 2003. How could a campaign spend so little to raise so much? Welch's folks chalk it up to being stingy with their checkbook. "We're as frugal with our (campaign) expenditures as Bob is with Wisconsinites' tax dollars," the Welch camp said in a statement issued earlier this year. But look at Welch's state campaign...