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Old 03-01-2011, 02:09 AM   #1
Evoryboypoto

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Default Buyer's Remorse: If election held today, Wisconsin' Walker would lose by landslide
Public Policy Polling: http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot....2/do-over.html

We'll have our full poll on the Wisconsin conflict out tomorrow but here's the most interesting finding: if voters in the state could do it over today they'd support defeated Democratic nominee Tom Barrett over Scott Walker by a a 52-45 margin.

The difference between how folks would vote now and how they voted in November can almost all be attributed to shifts within union households. Voters who are not part of union households have barely shifted at all- they report having voted for Walker by 7 points last fall and they still say they would vote for Walker by a 4 point margin. But in households where there is a union member voters now say they'd go for Barrett by a 31 point margin, up quite a bit from the 14 point advantage they report having given him in November.

It's actually Republicans, more so than Democrats or independents, whose shifting away from Walker would allow Barrett to win a rematch if there was one today. Only 3% of the Republicans we surveyed said they voted for Barrett last fall but now 10% say they would if they could do it over again. That's an instance of Republican union voters who might have voted for the GOP based on social issues or something else last fall trending back toward Democrats because they're putting pocketbook concerns back at the forefront and see their party as at odds with them on those because of what's happened in the last month.
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Old 03-01-2011, 03:35 PM   #2
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That last bit is the interesting part to me: Republicans backing away from Republican notions. Did they not realize what they were supporting when they decided party affiliation? Could it be that when they get away from rhetoric and celebrity pundits and celebrity televangelists and look at the actual issues, they realized that there's little good the GOP offers?
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Old 03-01-2011, 04:39 PM   #3
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It's not just Wisconsin voters who are unhappy, Floridians last month gave newly elected tea party Gov. Rick Scott a 28 percent favorability rating, according to Quinnipiac poll. With the governor recently turning down $2.4 billion for high speed rail in the state, two senators today (one Democrat and one Republican) filed a lawsuit in the Florida Supreme Court calling for Scott to "expeditiously accept" the money. http://is.gd/NIvXFO
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