Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker facing trouble at home, poll shows

[jaysunb]

April 16, 2015, 6:45 PM

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who has enjoyed several months of good news in his prospective quest for the Republican presidential nomination, hit a bump Thursday with a new poll showing a sharp drop in his popularity at home..

Walker's job approval has fallen to 41%, with 56% disapproving, according to the latest Marquette Law School poll, which has been Wisconsin's leading survey. That's the lowest approval figure for Walker in several years of Marquette's survey


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The one piece of good news for Walker, who has not officially declared his candidacy, is that he has a healthy early lead over other Republican hopefuls in the state's presidential primary. Walker is the first choice of 40% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, the survey showed, followed by Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky at 10% and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 8%.

Winning his home-state primary, however, has not been a major worry for Walker. A more critical part of his campaign is his claim to have won three elections -- including a bitter recall battle driven by public employee unions -- in a state that has gone to the Democrats repeatedly in presidential elections. The new poll dents that image of success in a blue state.

Not only has Walker's popularity declined, but voters have soured on the state's outlook. The share who say the state is on the "wrong track" increased to 53%, up from 44% in October.

By 38% to 33%, a plurality of voters said the state's budget picture had gotten worse than



http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-walker-poll-20150416-story.html

[Greybnk48]

1. I dislike him so much I'm afraid to get excited. n/t

[Cha]

2. Yep.. I saw a poll today where Hillary beats him by 12 points in Wisconsin. :)

[calimary]

3. I still do NOT understand why Wisconsin kept him on the job.

Shit. They've had two chances to get rid of him since he first pulled the wool over their eyes and got in. There was a recall. WHY didn't it work? And then they reelected him!?!?!? W. T. F. ??? What the hell, Wisconsin??????????

Same thing with fucking sam brownback. WHY? WHY keep him in office? He's taking the state of Kansas straight to Hell. And yet he got reelected. The question "What's the Matter with Kansas" is aptly posed. WTF IS wrong with these red states? WHY do they vote for this again and again? Clearly in Wisconsin those polled do NOT like the results they're getting. WTF????

Once again, I've gotta blame the voters. If they don't like what's going on, WHY DO THEY KEEP VOTING FOR IT????????????

[newfie11]

4. +++++++++++++infinity

That's exactly what I've been wondering.
WHY vote idiots back in. I guess they prefer the idiots to voting for a Dem.
Lemmings come to mind.

[HereSince1628]

7. Read this, it might help you understand. And an independent statistician confirmed these findings

just within the last month

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/12/20/voter-fraud-vs-election-theft-the-wisconsin-scott-walker-re-election/

[newfie11]

10. Thank you!!!

I had not seen this before. Sadly it explains a lot.

[calimary]

12. Why am I not surprised.

We need to take this seriously. At least - if you don't want one of the bad guys picking your next Supreme Court justices.

[HereSince1628]

15. The statistician, Beth Clarkson who did the confirmation has an open records request

submitted to get to the state voting records for Kansas voting machines to see just what's going on.

Stealing elections is very serious stuff.

Decades ago I swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. My service supported the killing a whole bunch of people who had offended me much less directly than this.

[MoonRiver]

14. So depressing.

If they keep this up, I think it happened in Kansas also, there's no hope. The thugs will permanently take over.

[HereSince1628]

8. Please see the link in the other reply

the anomalies that discussed are very unlikely to be random, and they have been confirmed by a second independent group of statisticians. They are consistent with and with high probability indicative of election theft.

As we all learned back in the early years of DU when BBV was a primary interest of DUers elections that fall within 5% swings are difficult to protect from manipulation.

WI is a reddish purple state by geography it leans red even though by population it is purple-purple. Off-year and non-national elections have lower voter turnout for dems (a pattern for urban voters that has been common across the entire nation) although in recent years WI dems have increased voter-turnout in all elections.

Governors in WI are elected in off-years an advantage to Walker and other republican candidates for governor.

[lutefisk]

11. Wisconsin governors elected in off years really does make a difference

People are rightly dumbfounded that Walker was reelected, but Wisconsin has had a Republican Governor for 21 of the past 29 years (since Tommy Thompson's first win), yet voted for the Democratic candidate for President every election during that same period. So it's really not like Walker pulled off a miracle by winning the Governor's race as he so strongly implies. And it doesn't hurt when he can outspend his opponent by nearly 2-1.

[deutsey]

5. I'm sure he doesn't care

He has two votes (the Koch brothers) that trump the votes of the unwashed masses.

[Takket]

6. Wait...

You mean busting Unions DOESN'T fix the economy? *facepalm* I thought for sure he had it all fixed!

[hatrack]

9. Well, better way, way, way too later than never, right?

.

[HereSince1628]

13. I suspect that survey included strata of voters who don't vote in midterms

To be specific, I suspect it includes

1) more urban dems, who have for decades had their influence undermined and underserved in midterm elections, and who so don't see it as meaningful.

2) a number of college and university students who didn't vote in the midterm elections and their parents, who may have leaned tea-party, but who suddenly grasp what Walker is doing to the budget, and quality, of the UW-system.

The result we see really only takes moving a bit more than half the difference in last November's election which is to say 4-5% of persons polled. Which, when you subtract out margin of error doesn't really require much change at all.