Campaign money has poured in; the Koch brothers, conservative industrialists, are spending for Mr Gardner and Mr Udall is backed by Tom Steyer, a green Californian billionaire.
That development gave new influence to billionaires such as conservative industrialists Charles and David Koch and liberal former hedge-fund manager Tom Steyer, who are expected to spend tens of millions of dollars this year.
Instead, to understand what happened in Wisconsin – and what is happening in states across the country – we need to look to the underappreciated organization that is at the center of the political network created and directed by the billionaire conservative industrialists, Charles and David Koch.
The conservative industrialist has given millions to public television.
Nawaz Sharif, a conservative industrialist, is now prime minister, for the third time.
By Jane Mayer Koch, the conservative industrialist, has given $23 million to public television.
As he was politically liberal and as many of his cabaret performances had raised the ire of the Nazis, he did not seek work in the German film industry which, since 1927, had been largely under the control of Alfred Hugenberg, a conservative industrialist and future supporter of Hitler.
Mr. Manchin is a popular governor in a state with a Democratic majority, but he has faced a stiff challenge from John Raese, a conservative industrialist who has argued that Mr. Manchin will be a rubber stamp for President Obama and runaway spending.
A misty mountain idyll in Switzerland follows, and then, for Jean, now married to Pauline, a return to the family fold and control of the porcelain works, where he becomes, through the decades, an increasingly conservative industrialist in a time of intense labor disputes.
Indeed, many of the Republicans crisscrossed the country this spring and summer to win over billionaires like the casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, the investor Paul Singer, and the conservative industrialist brothers David H. and Charles G. Koch, and delayed their official campaigns to raise money for super PACs set up by their political allies.
Some in the conservative industrialist Koch brothers' orbit have teamed with liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union to combat mandatory minimum sentences, earning a shout-out from Obama in that 2015 speech.
