Posted on 07/21/2015 4:46:21 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Catching Fire: Scott Walker Retakes Commanding Iowa Lead as Immigration, National Security, Marriage, Abortion Dominate Debate
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) is catching fire again on the campaign trail as the national conversation shifts to social and national security issues ranging from marriage to abortion to immigration to President Barack Obama’s nuclear arms deal with Iran and other national security matters.
While some of his campaign consultants don’t want the governor focusing on this stuff, it’s where he does his best—and it’s where he shoots up in the polls, as he’s done in the latest Iowa poll from Monmouth University.
The Monmouth poll of 452 Iowans from Thursday through Sunday with a margin of error of 4.6 percent found Walker squarely in the lead—the biggest lead he’s had in a long time—earning 22 percent of support. The next best performer in the poll is real estate magnate billionaire. Donald Trump at 13 percent, while Dr. Ben Carson pulls 8 percent, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is tied with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)at 7 percent apiece. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee gets 6 percent.
“Walker has been a favorite of Iowa voters ever since his well-received appearance at the Iowa Freedom Summit in January,” pollster Patrick Murray said in a statement.
Walker, since formally launching his White House bid outside Milwaukee in Waukesha, Wisconsin, a week ago, has barnstormed the campaign trail. He first hit Nevada, then South Carolina, then New Hampshire and just wrapped a several-day-long swing through Iowa—where he plans to tour all 99 counties in the Hawkeye State going for the “Full Grassley” as its known, named for the state’s senior GOP senator and Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
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I see Gov. Walker as a good possible candidate. More likely it will be one who was or is at present, a Governor, and Gov. Walker has a very good shot at it.
If you are a conservative, he has some ‘splaiin to do. To date, he has not.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s presidential effort in waiting has made yet another questionable and anti-conservative hire, as former National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) communications director Brad Dayspring joins the pro-Walker Super PAC Unintimidated PAC.
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Walker didn’t retake the lead, he never lost it.
In this most recent poll Walker gained 4 points. Trump gained 6.
Trump has doubled his % of the vote. No one else, including Walker, came anywhere near doing that.
Iowa is Walker’s by far for now, but Trump is nipping at his heels.
I’m tempted to cross the border into Iowa just to vote for Walker.
Tempted maybe but I would not do it, after all, I’m not a democrat.
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