Final pre-election Marquette Law School Poll finds Walker leading Burke in Wisconsin governor’s race
MILWAUKEE – A new Marquette Law School Poll finds Republican Gov. Scott Walker leading Democratic challenger Mary Burke 50 percent to 43 percent among likely voters in the Wisconsin governor’s race. Another 3 percent say that they are undecided or that they do not know whom they will support, while 1 percent say that they will vote for someone else. Likely voters are those who say that they are certain to vote in the November election.
Among registered voters in the poll, Walker receives 46 percent and Burke 45 percent, with 4 percent undecided and 1 percent saying that they will vote for someone else.
The poll interviewed 1,409 registered voters, including 1,164 likely voters, by landline and cell phone Oct. 23-26. For the full sample of 1,409 registered voters, the margin of error is +/- 2.7 percentage points. The margin of error for the sample of 1,164 likely voters is +/- 3.0 percentage points. This is the final Marquette Law School Poll before the Nov. 4 election.
The previous Marquette Law School Poll, conducted Oct. 9-12, found the race tied among likely voters, with the candidates holding 47 percent each, while 48 percent of registered voters supported Walker to Burke’s 45 percent support.
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My thought... this has probably been the real race all along. Burke is a nobody and a bad candidate... a trust fund kid with no accomplishments, no husband, no children. Those last two things might make me sound mean, but it's simply reality... people like Burke who don't have children to me don't have skin in the game. And they lack the life experience that parents have. I think most people recognize that, and that the race has always been Walker's. The MU poll is probably just catching up late to save its credibility... probably by adjusting how it screens for likely voters. That's a very old gambit of pollsters.
Among registered voters in the poll, Walker receives 46 percent and Burke 45 percent, with 4 percent undecided and 1 percent saying that they will vote for someone else.
The poll interviewed 1,409 registered voters, including 1,164 likely voters, by landline and cell phone Oct. 23-26. For the full sample of 1,409 registered voters, the margin of error is +/- 2.7 percentage points. The margin of error for the sample of 1,164 likely voters is +/- 3.0 percentage points. This is the final Marquette Law School Poll before the Nov. 4 election.
The previous Marquette Law School Poll, conducted Oct. 9-12, found the race tied among likely voters, with the candidates holding 47 percent each, while 48 percent of registered voters supported Walker to Burke’s 45 percent support.
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My thought... this has probably been the real race all along. Burke is a nobody and a bad candidate... a trust fund kid with no accomplishments, no husband, no children. Those last two things might make me sound mean, but it's simply reality... people like Burke who don't have children to me don't have skin in the game. And they lack the life experience that parents have. I think most people recognize that, and that the race has always been Walker's. The MU poll is probably just catching up late to save its credibility... probably by adjusting how it screens for likely voters. That's a very old gambit of pollsters.
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