The most conservative electorate in decades? (Cheeseheads unite!)

jsonline ^ | 10/7/2010 | craig gilbert

[milwguy]

Here are a few numbers that help explain why Senate Democrat Russ Feingold has trailed in every public poll this fall. They show the political leanings of likely voters in a recent statewide survey by Marist:

Liberals: 20%

Moderates: 33%

Conservatives: 47%

In other words, self-identified conservatives in this random sample of likely voters outnumbered moderates by 14 points and liberals by 27 points.

What’s striking about these “likely voters” is not just that how conservative they are. It’s how much more conservative they are than the actual Wisconsin electorate of recent years (I’ll have a broader story on this subject in Sunday’s Journal Sentinel).

The 2008 electorate in Wisconsin looked like this, according to exit polls of voters:

Liberals: 23%

Moderates: 47%

Conservatives: 31%

The 2006 electorate looked like this:

Liberals: 24%

Moderates: 50%

Conservatives: 27%

[milwguy]

Governor Doyle and Obama are the ones we need to thank for this amazing return to sanity in my state. Obama has gone from 70% approval on his inaugural day to 41%. Doyle has so runined the state, with his 29% approval rating, he could not be elected dog catcher.

We have a perfect combination in Ron Johnson for Senate and Scott Walker for Gov. Feingold and his quirky ads are no match for the tsunami coming Nov. 2.

[South40]

[Trust but Verify]

WE need to keep up with the GOTV efforts and watch for democrat cheating and expose it. We can win but only if we keep up on our efforts. Once Walker is Governor, we can get a voter ID law that makes sense.

[TexasFreeper2009]

The libeals have managed to wake the sleeping giant (aka the silent majority) again with their socialist policies, just like they did with Carter.

But this time our new Reagan (Palin) will have a conservative congress to finish off the liberals and their fail policies once and for all.