Marquette Poll: Walker’s Support Nose Dives In Wisconsin’s GOP Primary

Republican presidential candidate, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks during an education summit, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015, in Londonderry, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
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An overwhelming majority of Wisconsin voters are unhappy with Gov. Scott Walker’s decision to run for President, according to a Marquette Law School poll released Thursday.

Nearly two-thirds of Wisconsin voters, 63 percent, said they did not like Walker’s decision to run, the survey found.

In addition, the poll found, Walker’s support for his presidential run among GOP primary voters in Wisconsin has nose-dived from earlier this year. He still leads the other 16 Republican rivals, but the latest poll showed he had 25 percent support, compared with 40 percent before he entered the race.

Former neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson was the only other candidate to poll in double digits among primary voters, with 13 percent.

Fifty-seven percent of voters overall disapproved of how Walker is handling his governorship, according to the survey.

The poll was conducted among 802 registered voters, 334 of whom were Republicans, in Wisconsin from August 13 to 16 via landline and cellphone. The margin of error was plus or minus 4.3 percent. The Republican margin of error was plus or minus 6.6 percent.

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  1. Oh, I’d love to be a fly on the wall when Little Scotty has to tell the Koch Bros. how he’s blown all that money :wink:

  2. Ouch, a 39.4% job approval rating for Walker (-17.8% deficit). His personal approval rating is even worse at 39% (-18.2% deficit).

    That’s the lowest I’ve ever seen for a Governor in Wisconsin. We tend to be pretty forgiving people, especially when it comes to separating our opinions about a person’s job performance with the actual person.

    (By comparison, Obama is at a 48.5% job approval rating in Wisconsin (+.09%).)

  3. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    It’s like the GOP’s cursed…

  4. He still has a double digit lead over his closest competitor. If he stays in it that long, he wins Wisconsin.

    His more immediate concern is his polling in Iowa is also developing a fondness for the ground. His entire strategy is built upon him having a strong finish in Iowa. Since Trumpmania took hold, his numbers are tanking dramatically in Iowa. Check out this chart from RCP: (Scotty is the orange line at the top that plummets at the end)

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