While almost no one has heard of the guy, he would be the perfect presidential candidate for the Democrats in '08

Why?
1. The McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform Act. If you haven't heard of this, you should have.

2. He has refused to take any pay raises, and actually returns the extra amount of money he has been given since he made that campaigh promise to the U.S. treasury.

3. 12 years of experience as a U.S. senator of Wisconsin, a swing state. he is one of the deputy whips for the party,

4. Highly educated, and he actually earned it. He graduated from UW Madison with honors, went to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, and got his JD with honors from Hardvard Law.

5. He created an extremely effective advertising campaign in the form of 'home movies,' which were also pretty amusing. He's got the image of a charismatic, down to Earth guy, unlike the other candidates we've had recently.

6. Feingold's major focuses have been on campaign finance reform, fair trade policies, health care reform, environmentalism, a multilateral foreign policy, Social Security, abolishing the death penalty, and eliminating wasteful spending. He has also opposed NAFTA and other free trade agreements.

7. He has asked the Democratic Party to refrain from raising "soft money" for his ad campaigns, and has also requested that various special interest groups refrain from airing issue ads for him.

The only major stumbling blocks are that he is Jewish, and that he's had two divorces. I don't think being Jewish is as big a deal as it used to be, but one never knows what might be a problem. I know that during the last elections, the Bush campaign painted Kerry as anti-Israel. The Republicans would not be able to use that strategy against Feingold, so it might be an advantage. I don't know what the grounds for the divorces were, so that might be a problem. Politically, he is almost unrealistically free of scandal though, which is a good thing.