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Related: About this forumWisconsin: The Party "Extremes"
http://cognidissidence.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-party-extremes.htmlIts common knowledge now that Mary Burke's campaign strategy is to attempt to appeal to the Obama/Walker voter. After the dust up yesterday of Mary Burke skipping out on the appearance by President Obama, her friend Paul Fanlund put out an article, trying to justify this strategy.
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Says Franklin of his latest poll: Support for increasing the minimum wage, support for extending unemployment benefits, opposition to refusing Medicaid expansion. Theres quite a list of things that we polled on that show majorities that are typically Democratic sides of the issue. Last summer, Walker quietly signed into law a bill requiring women to have an ultrasound before an abortion, an action opposed by 56 percent to 38 percent in Marquettes October poll.
Now let's sum it up. There are more Democratic voters in Wisconsin than republican, the Core issues that matter most to Wisconsinites, are traditional Democratic strong hold issues and the current Democratic candidate for Governor is running as "anything but a rabid Democrat".
Franklin generally agrees: I think if you look at all of our data over two years now, you do find something in the ballpark of 10 percent that fall into this category of what you might call Walker-Obama voters, and I have looked at them in some detail.
Theyre much more likely to call themselves independents; they are much more likely to say they are moderate rather than either liberal or conservative. Theyre considerably younger than the population as a whole. They pay less attention to politics and are, of course, less likely to be partisan.
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Says Franklin of his latest poll: Support for increasing the minimum wage, support for extending unemployment benefits, opposition to refusing Medicaid expansion. Theres quite a list of things that we polled on that show majorities that are typically Democratic sides of the issue. Last summer, Walker quietly signed into law a bill requiring women to have an ultrasound before an abortion, an action opposed by 56 percent to 38 percent in Marquettes October poll.
Now let's sum it up. There are more Democratic voters in Wisconsin than republican, the Core issues that matter most to Wisconsinites, are traditional Democratic strong hold issues and the current Democratic candidate for Governor is running as "anything but a rabid Democrat".
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Wisconsin: The Party "Extremes" (Original Post)
Scuba
Feb 2014
OP
More of the old, "Lets run as a democrat while not appealing to democrats strategy."
Ed Suspicious
Feb 2014
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Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)1. Burke has a campaign strategy?
Who knew?
ewagner
(18,964 posts)4. we must all be fools......
obviously she is playing multi-dimensional chess and we, the low, the uninitiated, the great unwashed ....are playing checkers.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)2. More of the old, "Lets run as a democrat while not appealing to democrats strategy."
Now I get it. Repuke Lite.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)3. Trying to peel off the vote of the mythical "moderate Republican".
While ignoring the 50% of the electorate who don't bother to vote because neither Party offers them squat.
AllyCat
(16,189 posts)5. I'm so disappointed in Burke.
She has been even less than I feared she would be. I see little that she had proposed that would stop the abuses Walker had inflicted on our state.
postulater
(5,075 posts)6. By courting the Walker Obama voter
She is losing the Obama Obama voters.