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Feingold rules out 2008 run for president
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| Last Edited | asearchforreason Nov 12, 2006 12:58am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
| News Date | Sunday, November 12, 2006 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Washington - 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." |
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