Discussion: Poll: Scott Walker Most Competitive Against Clinton

[matthew1961]

yes, I include PBS/NPR in that category also

As well you should. The worst in fact because the most insidious.

[matthew1961]

But I bet 30% of the respondents would also say that Scott Walker is Luke Sky-walker’s brother (half-brother anyway). I wouldn’t put a lot of stock in what polls say at this point.

[daveyjones64]

Gee, could this be because Clinton is a completely known quantity with everyone who hates her already baked in

And don’t forget is a poll taken while the media is obsessing about Hillary’s emails and not saying boo about either Walker or Jeb all week.

[sstanl20]

And we all know polling this far out is always completely predictive of how the election will turn out. Just ask President Giuliani.

[navamske]

The guy would be the most reactionary nominee since Goldwater, and the only thing he can talk about is union busting – no matter what the question.

“A noun, a verb, and ‘union busting’.”

[leftflank]

That’s intentional, don’t believe otherwise.

[navamske]

But I bet 30% of the respondents would also say that Scott Walker is Luke Sky-walker’s brother

So Scott Walker’s father is Dick Darth Cheney?

[pine]

Democrat in the White House in 2016.

“Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker ® is the most competitive in a
head-to-head matchup against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,”

Someone upstairs knows how to tease us here on Earth,LOL!

[emilianoelmexicano]

Ronnie was a born pitchman.

Walker is not

Both are teflon

Ronnie’s was personality

Walker’s is MSM/FOX/Koch

There is no way that Walker has the least bit of qualifications to be a national Chief Executive. Winning over geriatric Wisconsinites hellbent on undoing the Social Contract which saved their parents is a different thing than REPRESENTING and ACTING ON BEHALF OF the United States of America.

[rssrai]

You know the Clintons have a reason to be cautious. They have been hounded by the media for decades. I think Hillary Clinton must be very strong and tough to face what she has over the years. You know I was for President Obama in 2008, and did not care for Hillary, but being SOS and putting in her time I 100 percent support her now. If Colin Powell and Condi Rice was treated like she has been over private email the republicans would have had a heart attack.

[pine]

Probably “half brother” 1961 LOL! Made my day.

[rationalleft]

In late 2013, then flavor-of-the-month Christie was AHEAD of Hillary in polls. That worked out great for him, didn’t it?

[leftflank]

Sure, he may be most competitive and that qualifies him as first loser. He’s supposedly 4 points behind right now, which I’m sure he’s thrilled about, but a 4 point loss in the general election is major landslide win according to Walker’s own tribe. So he’s buried right now at the height of his popularity when he’s receiving the same support that Romney got, the guaranteed 45%, which still even would lose to 47%, funny that.

[marnold]

I don’t know, and haven’t seen anyone else offer, an explanation for that.

Expat Cheesehead here. My sense of it is that it is fundamentally what Josh Marshall so eloquently calls “white identity politics” – the same glue that binds together the GOP coalition nationally. Those nice socially-liberal suburban “moderates” are so angry/uneasy over the fact of a black president and erosion of their privilege that they’re happy to vote with the tea party if it shoves a stick in the eye of the multiracial party. What we’re seeing, in other words, is the Southern Strategy playing in the anxious suburbs and crumbling industrial towns of the north.

I’m not so worried about Walker, though. He’s not ready for prime time, and Hillary should be able to pull some of those racially-anxious but socially-moderate voters back. Holding on to them was, after all, what her entire 2008 campaign was all about. FSM help us if I’m wrong, of course.

[daveyjones64]

I read a piece yesterday the presented the notion that this week marked the change over from attacking Obama to attacking Hillary for the GOP/media. It will be interesting to see how accurate that theory is going forward.

Whether or not its true, my guess is that for most of the campaign, we are going to see very few articles favorable to Hillary, lots very negative of her, and Walker being treated with kid gloves throughout. They seem to be locking into a meme regarding him already.

[darrtown]

Most competitive? That’s not saying much. The only poll that matters is the election. Lets us wait for a debate and watch Clinton commit surgery w/o anesthesia. I’m not saying I’m a Hillary supporter, just that Walker is out of his league.

[martinheldt]

Everyone should realize this, there’s only ONE thing that Walker can do well (he can’t answer a straight on question about anything of any importance what-so-ever, unless the talking points are in hand to regurgitate) but he CAN make Democrats and other similar voters go nuts. ALL he has to do is open his mouth; he offers nothing but nonsense, but we go nuts (often because it IS such nonsense). But as that happens, and we respond, his support among the base just sky rockets

He’s got the “W” gene.

(but I still think JEB takes it.)

[matthew1961]

Maybe, but Darth could be the father on the “Sky” side.

[rssrai]

Walker must be getting the same amount of the Latino vote as Bush. Everyone keeps saying that Bush having a Mexican wife and being catholic will win him 40 percent of the Latino vote. His brother only got 35 percent of the Latino vote and that was when Latinos had a better opinion of republicans. Even though Jeb Bush acts like he cares about immigrants he still said he would repeal President Obama’s executive order. I don’t see how any Latino can trust any republican with the republican party controlling congress. Jeb Bush will not do anything for Latinos when the republican party hates immigration reform.

[littlegirlblue]

Something he won’t talk about is evolution, or the $283 million deficit WI is looking at because of his tax cuts. That’s only part of the debt Walker has created in WI, and somebody will gleefully talk about it, just not the governor…