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Voters have a clear choice in U.S. Senate candidates this year. The candidates are very different from each other, and they have voting records to demonstrate the difference.

The incumbent, Republican Ron Johnson, is a conservative manufacturer from Oshkosh who won the office in 2010, the year Wisconsin Republicans nearly made a clean sweep in the November elections.

His opponent, Democrat Russ Feingold, is a liberal lawyer and former state senator from Middleton who served three terms in the U.S. Senate before being defeated by Johnson.

In his first term, Johnson appeared to take the job seriously, but he didn’t take himself too seriously. There may be a lot of stuffed shirts in Washington, but Johnson hasn’t been one of them. Sometimes he travels around the state without any entourage at all, not even a press aide. That’s not typical of U.S. senators.

Johnson lists his top priorities as national security, jobs, veterans and addressing the nation’s debt crisis.