United States Senate election in Wisconsin, 2006

United States Senate election in Wisconsin, 2006

November 3, 2006

Nominee Herb Kohl Robert Lorge Party Democratic Republican Popular vote 1,439,214 630,299 Percentage 67.3% 29.5%

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U.S. senator before election Herb Kohl Democratic Elected U.S. Senator Herb Kohl Democratic

The 2006 United States Senate election in Wisconsin was held November 7, 2006. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Herb Kohl won re-election to a fourth term.

Democratic primary

Candidates

• Herb Kohl, incumbent U.S. Senator
• Ben Masel

Results

2006 Wisconsin United States Senate Election Democratic Primary [1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Herb Kohl (inc.)	308,178	85.66%
	Democratic	Ben Masel	51,245	14.24%
	Democratic Party	Other	335	0.09%

Republican primary

Candidates

• Robert Lorge, attorney

Results

2006 Wisconsin United States Senate Election Republican Primary [2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Robert Lorge	194,633	99.73%
	Republican Party	Other	530	0.27%

General election

Candidates

• Robert Lorge (R), attorney
• Herbert Kohl (D), Incumbent U.S. Senator
• Rae Vogeler (G), community organizer

Campaign

Robert Lorge was the Republican candidate for the seat after being the only Republican candidate to file before the filing deadline on July 11, 2006. Despite receiving no money or support from the State or National Republican Republican party he fared better than Republican Senate candidates in New York, Massachusetts, North Dakota, and was the only major party candidate in 2006 able to deliver votes for under $1 in the Post McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Law era.

Polling

Source	Date	Kohl (D)	Lorge (R)
University of Wisconsin	October 30, 2006	73%	16%
Rasmussen	October 29, 2006	64%	25%
Rasmussen	September 25, 2006	60%	33%
Zogby/WSJ	September 11, 2006	50%	35%
Zogby/WSJ	August 28, 2006	51%	33%
Rasmussen	August 20, 2006	59%	31%
Rasmussen	July 20, 2006	60%	27%
University of Wisconsin	July 5, 2006	63%	14%
Strategic Vision (R)	June 8, 2006	65%	25%
Strategic Vision (R)	May 3, 2006	63%	25%
Strategic Vision (R)	April 12, 2006	61%	25%
Strategic Vision (R)	March 8, 2006	59%	27%

Results

2006 United States Senate election, Wisconsin [3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Herb Kohl (inc.)	1,439,214	67.31	+5.8
	Republican	Robert Lorge	630,299	29.48	-7.5
	Green	Rae Vogeler	42,434	1.98	n/a
	Independent	Ben Glatzel	25,096	1.17	n/a
	Other	Scattered	1,254	0.06	n/a
Majority			808,915	37.83
Turnout			2,138,297
	Democratic hold		Swing

Analysis

Kohl won a majority in every county in the state. Kohl's weakest performance in the state was suburban Washington County, Wisconsin, which Kohl won with just 49.6%. Kohl's strongest performance was in rural Menominee County, where he won with over 90% of the vote. Vogeler's best performance was in Dane County, where she came in third place with over 5%, a county where Lorge had his second weakest performance.

See also

• United States Senate election, 2006

External links

• Kohl's Campaign Site
• Lorge's Campaign Site
• Vogeler's Campaign Site