Newsweek features Hudson, Wisconsin

Howard Fineman's article on battleground states spent a while discussing Hudson this week.

It turns out that television alone can't reach some voters, at least to the extent that Bush and Kerry need to reach them. At best the tube can be an annoyance, at worst it can feed a sense of distance and suspicion, especially in a swing state inundated by ads. "People here don't pay much attention to what they see on television," said Bob Feickert, a Democratic organizer in Hudson, Wis., a fast-growing Minneapolis exurb. "They want to hear somebody from around here say, 'I support my candidate, and this is why'." Lori Bernard, a Republican counterpart, agreed. "Someone sitting next to you in church, someone you go hunting with, that's who you know best," she said. "That's who you trust."
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Demography is destiny. In Wisconsin, Republicans are scoping out the gun-loving members of Turkeys Unlimited—not to mention Ducks Unlimited and Pheasants Forever.

First: we are an exurb? And of Minneapolis?! To hell with you, Mr Fineman. You and all the other Kool Kids who lied about the basis for the war and continuously frame the issues in a misleading fashion. (Can you tell I don't like him?)

The second page of the article has a photograph of the Hudson Democratic office downtown.

So yes, Hudson is one of those hinge places... So goes Hudson, so goes the nation? Can I believe that? Anyhow, it is pretty cool that we are in there.