Another; of the 450 respondents (Pubs &Indies), 40% said they "never heard of" or "have no opinion" about Walker; 41 % Kasich; 29% Carly; 25% Carson.
These people can't find their polling booths--- don't see why their opinion should be valued as part of a current status analysis of the race.
” A combination of Trump’s rise, two weak debates, and a string of inconsistent answers on policy questions slowed his momentum however and have relegated him to the bottom tier of the field in recent polls.”
That’s dead bang on: excellent summary of what went wrong for Walker.
67 total votes is soaring in the polls?
The point they were trying to make that even with his exposure, Romney allowed the dems to define him since he was not well known.
So yes, I believe those large percentages of people have not heard of some of these people. Two weeks ago, Carly's percentage of people who did not know of her was at 52% - that was only two weeks ago. So I do believe those numbers.
A tiny sample like this in a national poll when only 4 states matter before everything could be upended isn’t very useful.
The decline in Trump’s numbers should be a concern though. If this is reflected in other polls then it could be a serious problem for him. He can’t afford to have the air let out of his balloon this early in the process.
Walker hasn’t gotten me riled up about anything.
Last I heard he wanted to go after government labor unions at a national level. I’ll be honest with. That’s probably got some substance to it, but it just isn’t high on my list of the concerns I have for this nation.
His website sent out a notice last week that campaign gear was 40 percent off.
Zogby Poll: Trump Widens Lead After GOP Debate
Forbes ^ | Sep 20 2015 | John Zogby
Posted on 9/20/2015, 6:11:05 PM by WilliamIII
Real estate mogul Trump has widened his lead to 20 points in a brand new Zogby Analytics poll taken after the second Republican presidential debate. The new poll of 405 likely Republican primary/caucus voters nationwide with a margin of sampling error of +/- 5.0 percentage points, conducted September 18-19, shows Mr. Trump with 33% (up 2 points from his pre-debate 31%). In second place is neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson who actually dropped 3 points to 13%.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3339259/posts
I would have crawled over broken glass for Scott Walker while he was fighting the government unions in Wisconsin. He has been an EXCELLENT governor in many ways. However, it seems since he decided to run for President, Scott has not made any decisions for Wisconsin. His wishy-washy stance on Common Core has left me and many of his followers disillusioned. Since Rick Wiley became his campaign manager, Scott has made some serious mistakes. One of them was canceling speaking engagements that he had made with Michigan voters and donors-twice!- to head to concentrate on Iowa. He is being managed very poorly and listening to bad advise to his peril.
No-vote.
This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross-sectional time-series data for 1870 to 1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting patterns for federal representatives, and these effects continued growing over time as more women took advantage of the franchise. Contrary to many recent suggestions, the gender gap is not something that has arisen since the 1970s, and it helps explain why American government started growing when it did.
So the GOPe is holding 26-32% of the vote. Trump hasn’t clobbered them and we’re losing the greatest opportunity of a generation with Walker. What a mess, thanks Donald.
I pretty much ignore the polls. I go on my gut feeling. I still can’t say who I’d vote for at this moment. I like Trump’s “ I don’t give a dam what you call me” attitude, I like Ben Carson’s intelligent approach to things. I like Carley’s “hacked off attitude”. She scares me some though. She reminds me of the CEO at the place I used to work at. We had a ***** come in and where I was at wasn’t broke, as in if it ain’t broke don’t fix it and she proceeded to fix it. In 7 years she fired or drove off over 85 of the 120 people there when she came in. Moral is still in the toilet, all of my friends still there absolutely hate their job but have in enough time that you don’t want to give up the weeks vacation and pay. We do need that in DC though, it is broke and we need someone to call both parties in and grab them by the jewels and fix it. I just don’t know. I don’t trust Rubio, I like Cruz but again, I just don’t know.
My God, the guy's biggest income has been his salary as governor - which is comparable to a mid-level manager with about 10 years' experience. No wonder he still clips coupons.
So MSNBC says Carly SOARS. CNN says she’s ROCKETING. OK.
MSNBC takes hit at Scott Walker’s decline in the polls.
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