Russ Feingold Bows Out of 2008 Race

Brian Zick

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Craig Gilbert for the Milwaukee Sentinel Journal reports: 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. via kos

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