Posted on 05/24/2011 3:37:39 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Democrat Russ Feingold leads Republican Tommy Thompson in a hypothetical U.S. Senate matchup in a new Wisconsin survey by Public Policy Polling.
You can find the firm’s analysis here, with matchups of other potential candidates on both sides. Feingold and Thompson are easily the best-known of all the political figures in the survey. Wisconsin will have an open Senate seat next year, due to Democrat Herb Kohl’s planned retirement.
In the statewide poll of 1,636 voters taken May 19-22, Feingold leads former Gov. Thompson 52% to 42%. Feingold leads other Republicans (Mark Neumann, J.B. Van Hollen and Jeff Fitzgerald) by slightly more). The firm also polled on matchups involving Democrats Tammy Baldwin, Ron Kind and Steve Kagen, but Feingold had the best numbers in his party.
Public Policy Polling is a North Carolina-based firm with a Democratic history and client list. It does automated surveys (sometimes called robo-polls). The firm said it did not do this poll for a client (it has done periodic public surveys in Wisconsin in recent years). In this survey, it polled Wisconsinites with a history of voting in at least one of the past three general elections.
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This has as much to do with name ID as anything else. I have qualms about Thompson even though I’d support him if he were the nominee.
LOL, they threw this bum out last year and now want him back?? I swear I’ll never understand the “minds” of blue state voters-—maybe it’s best I don’t.
Maybe they’re smoking a different brand of pot this year.
It’s sad, whenever name games dominate over political substance in any political race.
Nah, they don’t want him. He is just stirring the pot hoping he can get back in. Guess he didn’t steal enough money for his slush fund.
PPP, fugitaboutit
Wisconsin doesn’t need any more retreads. Thompson and Feingold should both pass on this.
PPP is Daily Kos’s pollster, and it consistently presumes that turnout in 2012 will be even more heavily Democrat than it was in 2008 (and that 2010 never happened). I won’t lose any sleep over this poll. That being said, the 2012 Senate election in WI will not be a landslide irrespective of whether we nominate Thompson, Van Hollen or that conservative ex-state senator from Waukesha and Washington Counties whom PPP apparently did not include in the poll despite the fact that he won a GOP straw poll this week.
Ah, another poll of “voters” - no mention of registered or likely, and it almost guarantees that it is the former, which makes this yet another worthless PPP Democrat poll. Feingold is now “popular” and Gov. Walker is “unpopular” and the nation is “coming back” to the Democrats during a sustained Depression of their creation. Can you say “Bull$hit !”, kids ?
Couple this with the impending recall elections, and it sounds like the cheeseheads are pining for what they perceive is the security of union-dominated socialism. Hopefully RTW states will be ready to roll out with incentive packages to WI businesses to entice them to relocate, if all this comes to pass.
A left wing rag hires a Dem party push poll outfit and surprise the Dem is ahead !!!
Now that's some great polling.
PPP been spitting out the Dem party push polls for the Obama state media on a weekly basis now !
That doesn’t make sense...they just threw him out of office handily and then would just vote him back in? If they wanted him out, why vote him back in? That does not make sense.
As a native Cheddarhead, I have to agree.
It’s time to move on to more Scott Walkers and Ron Johnsons. They are the transformational leaders that the LSM was chattering about in 2008. We have nothing to lose but fear of the “unknown”.
Feingold? Again?!?!?
I agree, new blood would do this state good, but only if they are true conservatives, else we are toast.
Thompson is a clown IMHO. I hope he doesn’t even get nominated.
I don’t buy this poll but that doesn’t mean Feingold can’t win. He can and he might. It’s not the same election. Comebacks happen all the time. It being a Potus year helps the democrats in Wisconsin. And the guy that beat him can’t run (well he can actually but he can’t hold both seats).
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