It was not a Walker conspiracy to deliver Wisconsin to Obama, but rather about five percent of voters who voted for Walker, later voted for Obama.
Though he has been elected, Walker is not especially popular in Wisconsin. Winning presidential candidates tend to be popular in their home states.
Reagan in California.
Bush I does not count as I am not sure anybody really paid much attention as he was in DC so much.
Clinton in Arkansas.
George W. Bush in Texas.
Al Gore - lost his home state of Tennessee.
Barack Obama - Illinois.
Ted Cruz is highly popular in Texas, as is Hillary in New York. However, Walker is by no stretch popular in Wisconsin. He has won elections with bare majorities, and the people that don’t like him and his policies have a great deal of animosity towards him.
I have to agree, winning 3 elections in 4 years is the first clear sign of underlying unpopularity among voters.
Furthermore, he has compounded that unpopularity by not taking on the Right to Work legislation. Instead he has focused on things that only he thinks are important for WI, education, smaller government items.
Clearly not ready for primetime.
I have in-laws in WI who slightly left of center
They voted FOR Walker in the recall because they do not like the concept of recalls (hyper democracy etc)
Also the Dems ran a real cutie in 2014
I agree he is not popular amongst the Badgers