If congressional voting records are any guide, no state has two U.S. senators who are further apart politically than Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin.

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Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren, left, and Senator-elect and current Representative Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis. walked together Capitol Hill.

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buzzfeed:

Congratulations Tammy Baldwin, you’re now the first openly gay senator in American history.

I’M JUST SO PROUD OF US! ON WISCONSIN!

Thanks for not listening to the naysayers, Senator. 

Chris Matthews interviews Tammy Baldwin, Democratic Senate candidate from Wisconsin. 

Wisconsin, the great Badger State, where our champion Green Bay Packers have never won a Super Bowl without a Democrat in the White House, where our Iron Brigade fought so all men and women could be free, where Lady Forward guards our Capitol to remind us we will always go forward and not back, and Wisconsin — home of our next great senator, Tammy Baldwin. We proudly cast all 103 of our votes for President Barack Obama!

The results of a Quinnipiac poll on how each of the Republican senate candidates would stack up against Democratic candidate Tammy Baldwin:

Baldwin 47%, Tommy Thompson 47%

Baldwin 48%, Mark Neumann 45%

Baldwin 47%, Eric Hovde 43%

Baldwin 51%, Jeff Fitzgerald 39%

anticapitalist:

If she’s elected she’ll become, at the tender age of 50, the first female senator from Wisconsin and also the country’s first openly gay senator. No pressure! She’ll also be a very powerful ally in the fight to protect the rights of women from being hacked to death by axe-wielding Republicans. So you’ll want to get onboard the Tammy train now, that way if and when she hits the Senate you can say you knew her way back when.

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“What’s happened over the course of the last year in Wisconsin is mind-blowing. You’d never believe it would have happened in that state.” - Rachel Maddow.

Amen.

Answers to the question “What does Congress need to do to solve the debt-ceiling problem by August 2nd?”

Like Obama said, “If you want a balanced approach to reducing the deficit, let your member of Congress know.”

Phone numbers for all Wisconsin Senators and Representatives are listed after the jump.

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Great question!  I would love nothing more than to have Feingold represent Wisconsin again.  In my mind, replacing Feingold with Ron Johnson epitomized everything tragic about the November 2010 elections.  I just have to believe that Wisconsin learned from that mistake, knows better now, and would elect Feingold if he ran.  But I’m not holding my breath that he’ll be a contender.  Although I could see him entering the political arena again, I’d be surprised if it was for senate in 2012.

If not Feingold, I think Baldwin would be a good choice (especially among the people hinting at running). It might be a long shot, but I would really like to see Erpenbach make a run for it.