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Article: Progressive Party reborn. (Wisconsin)
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- The Progressive
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- August 1, 1994
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Wisconsin, the state that spawned the Progressive Party in 1912, has a new third party. Efforts to build an alternative to the Democratic Party came to a head in May, when the state's Labor-Farm Party merged with Progressive Milwaukee and the New Party to form the New Progressive Party.
Labor-Farm has captured local offices in Madison, but since its birth in 1982, a strong statewide presence has eluded it.
The New Party--which merged with Progressive Milwaukee last year--champions the idea of electoral "fusion," as practiced in New York, where the Liberal Party can endorse the major-party candidates of its choice.
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