Exit poll: Obama bests Romney in Wisconsin by 12 points
Source: msnbc.com
With a third wave of exit poll data in, Wisconsin recall voters said they would pick President Obama over Republican Mitt Romney by a 54-42 percent margin in Wisconsin.
Caution, though, on the results -- 10 to 12 percent of the electorate voted absentee, and absentees are not included in the exit poll.
Exit polls show a tight race between incumbent Gov. Scott Walker (R) and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. If Walker is able to stave off the challenge and keeps his job, the Obama-Romney head-to-head numbers will throw cold water on analyses claiming the recall is a harbinger for this fall's presidential election.
Just 20 percent of Wisconsin voters said their personal financial situation had gotten better in the past two years; 45 percent said it was the same; 35 percent said it had gotten worse.
Despite that, voters didn't appear to blame President Obama. By a 45-36 percent margin, Wisconsin voters thought Obama would do a better job improving the economy than Romney, with 18 percent saying neither of them.
And by a 48-35 percent margin, voters said Obama would do a better job helping the middle class.
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Two very different things. The early returns tend to skew Republican. Small rural precincts that get their vote totals early tend to be Republican leaning. The Dems tend to vote later in the day (after work) and in very large precincts that report their vote totals quite late because of the huge size of the vote totals, such as Dane County (Madison).
