Sean Duffy

Sean Duffy's campaign to unseat David Obey is getting national attention.

TIME cites Duffy as one of "10 More Scott Browns."

Scott Brown's surprise victory in the Massachusetts Senate Race has given Republicans new confidence in challenging Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections. Here's a look at ten GOP congressional contenders who could follow in Brown's wake....

In a normal year, Wisconsin Democrat David Obey, the powerful head of the House appropriations committee, would not have to worry. But normal years do not bring challengers like Sean Duffy, a successful district attorney who also happens to be a former star of MTV's The Real World (Boston), a champion lumberjack competitor, and an ESPN commentator.

...With plenty of media attention, strong fundraising, and a very fresh face — he wasn't even born when Obey first took office in 1970 — Duffy will likely win the Republican primary, barring a surprise showing by the self-proclaimed tea party candidate Dan Mielke. Of course, that would mean facing the third-longest-serving member of the House in the general election, a man whose smallest margin of victory in eighteen elections was seven points.

The Democrats and the liberal pundits didn't think Republican Scott Brown could win in Massachusetts. They underestimated him.

Obey underestimates Duffy at his own peril.

I believe Sean Duffy can defeat David "War Surtax" Obey.

I really hope Obama comes to Wisconsin to campaign for Obey. We know how much Obama's visit to Massachusetts helped Martha Coakley Scott Brown.