Wisconsin "Progressives" Unite?

Group seeks to pull left together:

"Booth, a strategist for Proteus Fund, noted the state's liberal image, bolstered in Washington, D.C., by politicians such as Feingold in the Senate and Madison's Tammy Baldwin in the House.

But she reeled off the problem signs for the left: a state Assembly in which Republicans hold 19 seats in Democratic-leaning districts; a wave of conservative legislation (on guns, civil unions, tax limits, immigration, stem cells) either introduced, passed or vetoed by Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle; a huge drop-off from the Feingold vote in 2004 to the John Kerry vote that same year; and 16 years of GOP governors followed by Doyle, who 'won with only 45 percent of the vote, and so he is weakened in his position.'"

The problem signs may be larger than they are willing to admit - but at least they recognize they have them. As a Republican operative asks later in the article, "If the public doesn't agree with the Progressive position, it doesn't matter how united they are. It won't change anything." Holding up Feingold and Baldwin as examples will not win the hearts an minds of Wisconsin moderates!