The recently-concluded Wisconsin state Senate recalls, in which Democrats came just shy of their uphill goal of winning a majority in a backlash against Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-public employee union legislation, may have set a record. In addition to many millions of dollars and countless man-hours being expended — resembling Congressional races at the federal level — they were possibly the most negative campaigns on record in this country.
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