The Feingold Effect

Senator Feingold was in Steven's Point this morning to give a speech for the college Democrats. I was in attendance because whether I like him or not, he's half of our senatorial representation and he sits on some pretty interesting committees. I realize that riding my bike through winter weather at 8 AM to see him speak makes me look like a serious hippie, but bear with me.

The speech was pretty locality-oriented and wasn't very interesting. Something about how Obama supports minimum pricing for milk and McCain doesn't, an implication about how he can't trust a republican president with oversight of the intelligence agencies. He'll be giving this speech in something like twelve campuses across Wisconsin.

And if turnout was anything like it was today, that will get his message out to about 612 people. Today's speech drew a crowd just short of sixty.