Posted on 09/13/2014 6:31:28 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
NEW YORK – Governor Scott Walker (R-Wauwatosa) holds a four point lead in a CBS News/New York Times/YouGov poll.
The poll of 1,473 likely voters shows Governor Walker up 49 to 45 percent over Mary Burke with five percent undecided. The poll was conducted from August 18th to September 2nd with the margin of error being at plus or minus four percent.
The last two polls issued by Marquette Law School and We Ask America have found Mary Burke up by two to four percentage points among likely voters. The newest edition of the Marquette Law School Poll will be released on September 17th.
New poll on Walker vs Burke
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Remarkable that a man who has done such a good job is in such a close race. It is the badger state, though.
Absolutely amazing. The man has single-handedly and dramatically improved the state’s fiscal and economic environments to the benefits of all its citizens, and he only leads the Demonic by 5 points. There is no underestimating the outright stupidity of the average idiot...
Of course it is close. Wisconsin is blue meaning Walker has headwinds to begin with. But he is just beginning to take his shots at Burke and they are landing. Also, would anyone really trust a poll put out by a lefty source to say that a Republican pres hopeful is going to win?
The liberals of Wisconsin, like elsewhere, are a big-government, big-union, vicious, protesting, aggressive, obnoxious bunch of whiners whose continual he**-raising prods their base. Burke has proven her failure in governing, calling for a minimum wage hike while having her Trek bikes assembled overseas for a pittance wage, and, along with ex-Gov. Doyle, ran a huge deficit, poor business climate, and higher taxes. Walker, in a normal state, would be up by 40 points.
Without Madison, Milwaukee, and the teachers unions, Walker would have a 30 point lead.
Should not even be that close.
Exactly, these polls are meant to discourage and to grab the momentum for the dems. Also, if it “appears” to be a close race the dems don’t have as much cheating to do.
4% is a large margin of error. Hope is trends to a bigger Walker lead.
And hopefully the voter ID law will lead to a more fair election process.
The one on the left? That’s a man, baby.
And they are taken in heavily Democratic areas, not in the rural areas hardly at all. A party ratio is applied for the overall area in question. That is what you get with these polls.
So for instance, they will say the poll is this much for Scott Walker. No, that is not true. The applied ratio of the poll is such and such. And they never tell you the ratio they applied to the poll.
Moreover, when the polls say the Republicans are up, this is really bad news for the Democrats. Because the poll samples are taken in highly Democratic areas (Democratic cities and Democratic suburbs outside these cities).
“Remarkable that a man who has done such a good job is in such a close race. It is the badger state, though.”
I keep wondering what’s wrong with the people in WI. Walker has essentially saved their state and still they want to go RAT again.
4 points puts him well within the range in which the Dems can cheat him out of a well deserved win.
It is actually remarkable he may pull this out - the media invented a story to create a huge firestorm over a ‘criminal conspiracy’ he was supposedly involved in when the real story was how judges kept throwing it out because they were found to be baseless...but the media made the story about the accusations which had no merit.
There’s no question that he’s having to fight the major newspapers in the state on the conspiracy joke, but the biggest reason it’s close is that his Act 10 reform bill that took on the unions also directly cut every teacher’s paycheck by thousands of dollars per year.
Sure, if they dropped out of the union, they got a thousand or so back, and if their school was able to renegotiate the health insurance some of that savings might have ended up back in the teachers’ paycheck. Some schools raised wages, for example.
And there’s no question that Act 10 saved a lot of teaching jobs because layoffs weren’t necessary and property taxes have been cut to boot, but people don’t vote on what didn’t happen (their job didn’t end), but on what did (their paycheck was smaller.)
And nearly every family in the state has a teacher in it somewhere, whether parent, child, or near relative, so the impact of the reduced salaries was widespread.
It was a good move over the long run, but it soured a lot of teachers and their families on Walker. If he wins in spite of that, and the schools keep doing well, I think the state will become redder in time as teachers realize they’re in more favorable working conditions and as the immediate effect of the pay cut wears off. If he loses, all bets are off, the unions regain control, and state finances go into the toilet again.
Bwaa-Haaa-Haaa!
You just KNEW the BS coming out of Marquette polling was to prop up Ms. Burke-n-stock!
Are they going to have a few debates? He’ll mop the floor with her!
“Walker, in a normal state, would be up by 40 points.”
Yes, he would!
Some consolation, though - we should have Voter ID in place by November! Woot! Woot!
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