The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has definitely had far-reaching political consequences — and by far-reaching, we mean it’s become an issue at the other end of the country, all the way up north in Wisconsin, where Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold is running for a fourth term, and where Dems are hammering Republican businessman Ron Johnson over his ties to BP.
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