Monday, October 24, 2011

The Walker Recall: By The Numbers

Just weeks before the official kickoff to the Recall Walker movement, things aren't looking too good for the puppet governor of Corporate America.  The Democrats have just released the numbers related to a survey of Wisconsinites regarding Walker and his job performance.

Walker must be reaching for the industrial-sized bottle of antacid whenever he sees these numbers.


As the gentle reader can see, only 42% of the people would keep Walker as governor while 51% support Anyone But Walker.  Besides the fact that the majority want Walker gone, he doesn't test out very well in other aspects either:
  • 53% of the people hold an unfavorable opinion of Walker personally
  • 52% of the people feel that the state is seriously going the wrong way
  • 52% disapprove of Walker's job performance.
And it's just that people don't like Walker - they really don't like him:


But we already knew that most Democrats can't stand Walker while many Republicans have put on their blinders and have drunk deeply of the Kool-Aid, pretending that continuous job loss, loss of rights and plutocracy is actually a good thing.

The biggest story is how the Independents feel about him, which isn't very good either, per the report:
Walker struggles mightily with the middle of the electorate. Independents – those who do not identify with or lean toward either party – support the recall by 16 points, 52-to-36 percent, led by Independent women who overwhelmingly favor the recall. Similarly, self-described Moderates favor the recall by 23 points. These Independents will be a tough audience for Walker to persuade, as nearly three-in-five have an unfavorable opinion of Walker and 56% disapprove of his job performance. Walker also has a particular problem among women, who favor the recall by 20 points.

In addition to the strong support for the recall among Independents, less partisan Democrats (those who describe themselves as “not strong” or “lean”) are stronger in their support for the recall than the less partisan Republicans are in their support to keep Walker in office by eight points.
The poll also showed that the majority of people felt that Walker is too close to corporate interests and was mainly interested in just grabbing all the power he could.

Not the kind of numbers that you want when you're about to go into the fight for your political life. Even worse for Walker is that the polling happened weeks before we learned the state lost more than 12,000 more jobs because of his failed policies and budget schemes.

And before the usual suspects go on a rant about it being Democratic poll numbers and thus slanted, let me point out that they are about to spend a helluva lot of money on the recall.  They aren't about to blow through that much money unless they had a reasonable expectation of winning.

Furthermore, I would suspect that the Republicans polling is about the same.  If their numbers were positive, they would have been crowing about them already.  Instead, we see them scrambling about trying to suppress many voters, rigging the GAB and gerrymandering.  Those aren't the signs of a confident group of people.

3 comments:

  1. "Instead, we see them scrambling about trying to suppress many voters, rigging the GAB and gerrymandering."

    Don't forget: ... and stacking the state supreme court, with surprise votes materializing for Prosser — who then tries to strangle an opposing justice in her office.

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  2. "Instead, we see them scrambling about trying to suppress many voters, rigging the GAB and gerrymandering."

    Don't forget: ... and stacking the state supreme court, materializing surprise votes for Prosser, who then tries to strangle an opposing justice in her office. (All headline news items in Wisconsin.)

    Oh, to think what a shining exemplar of progressive government Wisconsin used to be. "On, Wisconsin!" "Forward!" [sob]

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  3. "Instead, we see them scrambling about trying to suppress many voters, rigging the GAB and gerrymandering."

    Don't forget: ... and stacking the state supreme court, materializing surprise votes for Prosser, who then tries to strangle an opposing justice in her office. (All headline news items in Wisconsin.)

    Oh, to think what a shining exemplar of open, honest, progressive government Wisconsin used to be. "On, Wisconsin!" "Forward!" [sob]

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