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THOMPSON AND BALDWIN BARNSTORM THE STATE WPR News - Thompson and Baldwin Barnstorm the State
Monday November 05, 2012 by Chuck Quirmbach

U.S. Senate candidates Tammy Baldwin and Tommy Thompson have another full day of campaigning planned today as they compete for votes ahead of tomorrow's election. {description}

Representative Baldwin says she visited four African-American churches in Milwaukee yesterday, before the Democrat dropped by a Milwaukee get-out-the-vote office during the first half of the Green Bay Packers game.

 

Baldwin watched several minutes of the game, then met with the news media at halftime. Baldwin says if she's elected to the Senate, one of her votes would be on the so-called fiscal cliff, the combination of possible federal tax increases and spending cuts.

She says her guiding principles would be: "Does it create jobs, does it reduce the deficit, and does it help the middle class,"  she says.  "You can't always get all three, but that ought to be the yardstick."

Baldwin also toured western Wisconsin late yesterday.  Her Republican opponent, Tommy Thompson, completed a 10-city weekend tour last night, with a stop in Milwaukee. Thompson says there was a mishap during one leg of the trip.

"Menomonie to Shawano where we hit a deer and totaled my car."

Thompson also said the election polls, which generally show him trailing Baldwin by a few percentage points, don't  gauge turnout and enthusiasm.

"From Milwaukee to Superior to Hudson to Green Bay.  We're on fire, ladies and gentlemen!"

Thompson and Baldwin each have several campaign stops planned for today. Baldwin begins by helping welcome President Obama to Madison.

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