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Rasmussen Poll: Wisconsin Voters Now Oppose Walker Recall By 11-Point Margin
Townhall ^ | 03/05/2012 | Guy Benson

Posted on 03/06/2012 10:07:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Ever since they announced their intention to do so, I've been publicly begging Leftists to waste spend tens of millions on a recall campaign against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.  I was convinced that the Democrat-Union coalition would squander precious campaign resources in an quixotic bid to exact revenge on one of their most despised conservative bogeymen.  A new poll from Rasmussen suggests that my instincts were correct.  Wisconsinites -- who have voted to re-elect a conservative state Supreme Court justice and to protect a Republican State Senate majority since Walker's budget fix passed -- now oppose replacing the governor by an 11-point margin:

 

Fifty-four percent of Wisconsinites oppose the recall of Gov. Scott Walker, according to the most recent polling data from Rasmussen Reports. In a phone survey of 500 likely voters, Rasmussen also said 52% at least somewhat approve of Walker’s job performance to date, while 46% at least somewhat disapprove. The findings include 40% who strongly approve and 40% who strongly disapprove. By party, the poll revealed that 78% of Republican voters strongly approve of Walker’s performance and 73% of Democrats strongly disapprove.

Among voters not affiliated with either major party, 58% at least somewhat approve of Walker’s performance, including 36% who strongly approve. Forty-three percent say they would vote to recall Walker and remove him from office, but 54% would vote against recall; 80% of the state’s Democratic voters would vote to remove Walker, but 89% of Republicans and 58% of unaffiliated voters would oppose that recall.


Badger State Democrats are less united behind the recall push than Republicans are against it, and independents have helped nudge Walker's overall job approval into the black.  Nearly 6 in 10 Wiscy indies would vote to retain the governor, whose inexpiable Crime Against Humanity was to fulfill a campaign promise by passing a responsible budget package.  Walker waded into this fight with an ad campaign last fall, and his brand new spot picks up right where he left off -- reminding voters that his controversial program is working exactly as planned:

 

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But by all means, Wisconsin Lefties, please keep up the excellent, expensive work.  It's not like your hand-picked Senate candidate is losing to all three possible Republican opponents, or anything.  Solution: More shrieking!

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 2012; 2012polls; democratcorruption; elections; rasmussen; recall; scottwalker; unioncorruption; unions; wi2012; wisconsin; wisconsinshowdown
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To: SeekAndFind
I've given a few bucks to Walker and I hope that he creams the demonRAT bitch in this recall vote.

Not only will that grow bowling balls for other pubbie gubbernors with BB balls, but it will cost the union thugs more millions and they will have to steal even more from their members.

Additionally, if Walker wins big, obummer will have to spent big bucks in a state that he won by 8 points in '08.

As an aside, I went to lunch today with 5 of my golf pals {3 demonRATs and 3 pubbies} but was shocked when two of the union goons, declared outright, and proudly showed us their new pubbie voter registration cards.

The new score is now one demonRAT and five pubbies.

The demonRAT picked me up at my house for lunch, but was so pissed that I had to get one of the other guys to take me home...hahahaha, I'm so happppppppppppy.

When I told Mrs. Alaska that one of the guys that she has known for many years, converted from demonRAT to pubbie, I thought she was going to pass out.

This guy has been a 50 plus year United Steel Worker and devout Catholic and the local Bishop finally convinced him and his wife to cut the demonRAT cord.

obama doesn't know how much his obamacare intrusion into religious freedom is going to hurt his re-election chances.

21 posted on 03/06/2012 11:57:39 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorists savages.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Let Big Labor spend a half-trillion. They’re gradually losing their ability to recoup that money due policies like Walker’s. Pretty soon they’ll be bouncing checks all over town and they’ll be deader than disco.


22 posted on 03/06/2012 12:08:16 PM PST by qaz123
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Let Big Labor spend a half-trillion.

I'm OK with that, but unfortunately, it's not just Big Labor that will be spending money in this recall. It will cost the state big time.
23 posted on 03/06/2012 12:43:26 PM PST by Sopater (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
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