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Madison - Absentee voting in the June 5 recall election already far exceeds that of the primary earlier this month. As of Wednesday, at least 90,000 Wisconsin voters had cast an absentee ballot, up from 68,000 in the May 8 recall primary, according to the Government Accountability Board. The state elections agency gathers those numbers in its voter registration system from just over a third of the municipalities in the state, including all the state's large cities. The figures came out as a new poll showed Gov. Scott Walker with a 5 percentage point lead over Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett,...

Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich is in Madison on Monday. He spoke to an overflow crowd Monday morning in a state Capitol hearing room. The Ohio congressman got the loudest cheers for his statements opposing the war in Iraq. In his words, "It was wrong to go in, it was wrong to stay in." Kucinich also told the overflow crowd of about 150 people, including many college students, that as president he would offer free tuition at two-year and four-year public colleges. That proposal also was popular. Kucinich had words of advice for voters who like what he stands for but...

The Democratic presidential candidates are hitting Wisconsin hard in the coming days to win next Tuesday's state primary. About 50 students and Howard Dean supporters greeted the former Vermont governor outside Reeve Memorial Union Thursday morning when Dean and his wife stopped on the U.W.-Oshkosh campus. After that, Dean was whisked off to the Grand Opera House in Oshkosh to speak to more supporters. Supporters say Dean could pull a surprise and win the Wisconsin primary. "Polls tell you something but the voters are going to make the decision," Dean supporter Matt Baldwin said. "We're building a lot of momentum...