2008: Feingold won't run for president

Daily Kos Staff

Saturday November 11, 2006 · 11:14 PM PST

2006/11/11 · 23:14

Russ is out.

Sen. Russ Feingold will not seek his party's presidential nomination in 2008, the Wisconsin Democrat told the Journal Sentinel on Saturday.

"I never got to that point where I'd rather be running around the country, running for president, than being a senator from Wisconsin," Feingold said in a phone interview from Madison.

Feingold, 53, conceded that he faced long odds of winning the nomination.

"It would have required the craziest combination of things in the history of American politics to make it work," he said.

But Feingold said waging an underdog campaign appealed to him. What didn't appeal to him, he said, was "the way in which this effort would dismantle both my professional life (in the Senate) and my personal life. I'm very happy right now."

I'm still not ready to start talking 2008 with still so much to digest about 2006. But if there's ever been a reason to hold back on picking a guy, Warner and Feingold have proven it.

We know Vilsack is in. Other than that, who the heck knows who'll be in or out?

So sit back. Watch everything unfold, then make the candidates work hard for our support.

2008: Feingold won't run for president

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