Dave Zweifel: If UW-Madison is so leftist, why so many famous right-wing alums?
Madison has produced its fair share of Republicans over the years, politicians like former Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, former California Gov. S.I. Hayakawa, the late Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Bill Steiger and, of course, the school’s current president, Tommy Thompson, four times elected governor of his state.