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"-- The leaders of the Wisconsin Senate touted their parties' fall election chances on \"UPFRONT with Mike Gousha.\"Majority Leader Mark Miller believes Democrats will easily hold onto their majority. Miller, D-Monona, said two important districts are worth watching: the open 12th in northern Wisconsin, and the 18th, where Jessica King, D-Oshkosh, is seeking re-election.\u00A0 \u201COur polls show she has a comfortable lead on her opponent,\u201D Miller said on the show, produced in conjunction with WisPolitics.com.He said the 12th Senate District features a three-way race with a libertarian in the mix. \"It has been a seat that has been represented by Democrats in the state Senate since 1983 and Barack Obama carried that in 2008,\" he said of the seat now held by retiring Sen. Jim Holperin, D-Conover.On the other hand, Senate Republican leader Scott Fitzgerald said the Republicans will take back the\u00A0 majority and probably by more than one seat. \"I don\u2019t think there is any doubt Tom Tiffany is going to win the 12th Senate seat,\" the Juneau Republican said.\u201CRight now we are looking for the 18th or even 19th seat, and that could come down to the 30th Senate seat and which is in Green Bay as well,\u201D\u00A0 Fitzgerald said. \"So it's a pretty wide open field.\u201D-- Charles Franklin, director of the Marquette University Law School Poll, was also on the program to explain the shifts in polling data.In polls after the first presidential debate, the race between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama tightened dramatically.Persuadable voters are shaping the polls. Franklin defined this class of voters:\u00A0 \"At the moment they will tell you I think I will vote for Romney or I think I will vote for Obama. But if you talk to them a couple of weeks later they may have changed their minds. Not because they are fickle, but because events have occurred.\u201DAccording to Franklin, undecided voters only make up 3 percent to 5 percent of the voters, 7 percent to 15 percent of voters are persuadable.-- And WISN-TV reporter Kent Wainscott and Wisconsin Public Radio's Shawn Johnson talked about the negative U.S. Senate race between Tommy Thompson and Tammy Baldwin.\"They were on the attack almost in each other\u2019s face on several occasions,\u201D Wainscott said of last week's debate. The third debate, this Friday at Marquette Law School, is co-sponsored by UpFront, WisPolitics.com and WISN-TV.According to Wainscott, both candidates have been successful in redefining the other\u2019s image. Baldwin paints Thompson as not for Wisconsin anymore and Thompson accuses Baldwin of being too liberal for\u00A0 Wisconsin.\"I think it has just been a conscience decision by them that this is how they win,\" Johnson said of the Senate race. \"They tear down the other candidate.\"Added Johnson:\u00A0 \u201CIt is interesting they both use healthcare to get there. Tommy Thompson has gone after Tammy Baldwin because of the federal health care law and the statements she has made in the past that she would actually like to go farther than federal healthcare law.\"Tammy Baldwin has also gone after Thompson on healthcare and has decided to talk about it on a different playing field: Medicare Part D.\"--Mike Gousha says an analysis from NBCNews.com shows that of the top 10 markets for campaign TV ad spending, two of them are in Wisconsin, with the Green Bay market No. 1.\u00A0"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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