Author: jplucas

Quoted: Debra Shapiro, a UW-Madison librarian with a background in food history.

Quoted: ?Independents deserted Democrats, period,? said Ken Goldstein, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. ?This was not about Feingold?s record or the money or the advertising. It was about the anger of independents at the status quo.?

Quoted: “Wisconsin has historically been a battleground, so when a national tide comes in, the margins to flip things here are smaller,” said David Canon, a political scientist at University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Quoted: His unpredictability “gave him more leverage than an average senator” because both parties had to plead their sides before Feingold would make a decision, said Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin political science professor who studies American politics. “It made the Senate a more interesting body.”

Quoted: “I think Governor-elect Scott Walker and the state Legislature will be completely preoccupied initially solving the budget problems,” said Mark Bugher, director of the University Research Park near the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It?s a significant problem they?ve inherited and it will take a herculean effort to get a balanced budget together and passed by July 1.”

Quoted: Walker?s promise to eliminate the corporate income tax for new businesses will almost certainly deepen the state?s budget deficit, said Andrew Reschovsky, professor of public affairs and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: “I would be interested in using it,” says Douglas Weibel, a University of Wisconsin, Madison, researcher who also uses microfluidics devices to study bacterial chemotaxis. He thinks that the new chip could address cellular differences in migrating bacteria populations — for instance, how cells on the leading edge of migrating bands differ in protein expression from those at the trailing edge.

Quoted: “It?s rare to find someone who gets into office and reverses course,” said Charles Franklin, a UW-Madison political science professor. “Every governor implements their policy incrementally.”

Quoted: The race in Wisconsin reflects a national dissatisfaction with the direction of government, said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Quoted: Dennis Dresang, a political-science scholar and professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, doesn?t see Tuesday?s Feingold loss in quite such stark terms, arguing that while the state?s penchant for liberalism has taken a sharp detour, it will rise again in Wisconsin and around the country.

Quoted: “There?s a huge question of what governing looks like if tea party folks get elected to the Senate, where each individual can tie the Senate into knots by themselves,” Charles Franklin, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin, told the Monitor before Election Day. “It?s hard to see how Congress adopts a governing program that would satisfy most of the people in the tea party movement.”

Noted: New technologies, especially minimally invasive technologies, present another problem, said Dr. K. Craig Kent, chair of the Surgery Department at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. When a technology is new and looks like a panacea, everyone wants it and resists being randomly assigned to the comparison group receiving the standard treatment. That desire wanes only after a couple of years when the inevitable drawbacks begin to manifest.

Noted: When this research first came to light last year, University of Wisconsin anthropologist John Hawks cautioned against reading too much into fossilized fingers. He said the index-to-ring ratio “may be correlated with mating system in primates, but that doesn?t mean it?s a good predictor of mating system. … As fossil hominins go, I wouldn?t expect the story to go any further — there just aren?t many hands, so there?s never going to be a significantly predictive result.”

Noted: That said, Kenneth R. Mayer, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tells BATTLE ?10 that Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D., WI-02) has been running ads in Madison against her opponent, 27-year-old businessman Chad Lee (R). Merely an ??insurance policy? to be sure, Mayer says, but almost unprecedented in a district that voted nearly 70 percent for Obama.

Quoted: Charles Franklin, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison added: ?If history holds, this is the prediction of a Republican wave of genuinely historical proportions.?

Quoted: Dr. Barbara Knox, a child abuse expert at UW Children?s Hospital.

Quoted: UW-Madison law professor Shubha Ghosh, who specializes in intellectual property and business law.