I'm not sure if this'll have much of an impact. Obama has already secured the support of most of the people who know about and love Feingold. But it is another Superdelegate.

Feingold is the reason I dropped my support for Edwards, so I'm glad to see he and I are on the same page with respect to Obama.

Wait, Feingold is part of a cult?!?

What?... Feingold has something to say that doesn't involve short sighted, sanctimonious rhetoric toward John Edwards? Please Russ stay in WI where it is safe to be a liberal Democrat or maybe you would like to trade states. Maybe you should come down to NC and run against Dole, then we will see how pure of a progressive you really are.

please stop with the cult and the latte sipping comments. membership in a latte sipping cult is NOT a precondition to liking smart, intelligent, and yes liberal candidates. i don't assume every republican wear cowboy boots and says ya'll, nor do I assume hillary supporters are only middle aged pant suit wearing white women. Why? cause just like the cult comments it's a narrow and useless sterotype.

I think that Senator Feingold is one of the good ones. I've actually donated money to his coffers and it's a long way to Wisconsin from Alabama.

Obama also seems like an good candidate to me. He seems fine with the vision thing, but I hope that can assemble a good team, especially in foreign policy.

I would put him in my top 5 most likely. A very unconventional choice, but with the way Obama has run his campaign, that just makes it more likely. I think his ideology/principaled nature lines up pretty closely with Obama's, and he is young enough to run for President 8 years from now (party building). If it is not him, I would expect it to be someone else that fits in those 2 categories. Although of corse, conventional wisdom would suggest that it will be a 60-70 year old white man from a southern republican leaning swing state, with many years of experience on the armed services committee (or as a gov.).

Last year I had a nice chat with Senator Feingold for about an hour at a Starbucks near Madison. And for the record, neither of us had a latte - we both chose hot chocolate.
And he was wearing his gym sneakers.
I'm being serious.

:-)

It does make a difference that Feingold has come out and stated this. Maybe not to the country as a whole, but to WI. WI papers have noted that the Senator was "torn" between Clinton and Obama.

My guess is that right now Superdelegates are refraining from endorsing in order to allow the election to play itself out in term of pledged delegates. Thus, Feingold has not come out and formally endorsed, though this informal endorsement will likely stem the calls and emails of voters clamoring for him to endorse.

To earn Feingold's vote is a high honor for Obama. And indeed says what most of us supporters already know: There is no cult here.

Only admiration and support that is well deserved and has indeed been earned.