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applegrove

(118,719 posts)
Mon Mar 9, 2015, 10:52 PM Mar 2015

Walker leads Bush in new GOP poll

Walker leads Bush in new GOP poll

By David McCabe at the Hill

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/polls/234706-walker-leads-bush-in-new-gop-poll

"SNIP................

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker leads former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and a crowded field of possible Republican presidential candidates, according to a new poll.

Walker wins the support of 18 percent of GOP voters in the new Quinnipiac University pPoll, while Bush is supported by16 percent.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee trail further behind, as both get 8 percent. Ben Carson, a conservative activist, wins 7 percent in the poll.
If Bush is taken out of the poll, Walker gets 20 percent and would have a healthy lead over Christie, who gets 10 percent.



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Walker leads Bush in new GOP poll (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2015 OP
They know Walker the myth, when they get to know Walker the man HereSince1628 Mar 2015 #1
If ONLY! elleng Mar 2015 #3
R.I.G.H.T. I forgot everyone in WI went like TOTALLY for Walker! HereSince1628 Mar 2015 #10
Right, HereSince, and we CAN'T forget that! elleng Mar 2015 #13
the nation has chance to know him because he was exposed here. HereSince1628 Mar 2015 #17
If 012 is any indicator they will cycle through several poll leaders./NT DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #2
Hope so. elleng Mar 2015 #4
If conventional wisdom holds./NT DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #5
That year they cycled through all of the Tea Party wannabe candidates, Jackpine Radical Mar 2015 #8
we might get walker vadermike Mar 2015 #6
DAMN RIGHT, we'd better have our shit together! elleng Mar 2015 #7
I'm glad to see others taking the threat he poses seriously. Jackpine Radical Mar 2015 #9
I hope we're not the only ones. elleng Mar 2015 #11
I'm with you, I definitely think Walker is a real threat Dems to Win Mar 2015 #18
SERIOUS horror, elleng Mar 2015 #19
Oh I for one am taking him very seriously GusBob Mar 2015 #21
George W Bush didn't have a bald spot and wasn't cross eyed. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #12
walker has the kochs. elleng Mar 2015 #14
Our candidate will be well funded too... DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #15
Won't be close AT ALL! elleng Mar 2015 #16
Hard money sure but the PACS? Dubious at best. TheKentuckian Mar 2015 #22
Bush is a bigger threat because he has appeal mr_liberal Mar 2015 #24
It'd be a mistake not to see Walker's appeal to the most selfish of oligarchs HereSince1628 Mar 2015 #28
The only (plausible) way *any* Repug would be able to win in 2016, at this rate..... AverageJoe90 Mar 2015 #29
yep vadermike Mar 2015 #20
What will really be fascinating to watch is when Cruz starts taking him on. Because Walker is stevenleser Mar 2015 #23
Scott Walker isn't ten feet tall... DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #25
In a higher turnout Presidential year, could either of them win their home states? pstokely Mar 2015 #27
The interesting days are just starting. MissMarple Mar 2015 #26

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
10. R.I.G.H.T. I forgot everyone in WI went like TOTALLY for Walker!
Mon Mar 9, 2015, 11:09 PM
Mar 2015

52-53 and 53 percent, achieved through a combination of efforts to disenfranchise and suppress voters and at least according to election theft researchers, apparent evidence of election theft.

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
17. the nation has chance to know him because he was exposed here.
Mon Mar 9, 2015, 11:18 PM
Mar 2015

The nation gets a head start on knowing him, not because major networks did that opposition research, but because Democrats and media here have made it known

Someday soon people will be thankful we did that. Maybe thankful enough to quit playing the blame the victims in WI.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
8. That year they cycled through all of the Tea Party wannabe candidates,
Mon Mar 9, 2015, 11:07 PM
Mar 2015

who actually had no chance at the nomination because the Big Money was never gonna support them. Big Money wants someone they can control & predict. Teabagger loonies don't fit the job description. Walker does, and his special strength is that he can suck in the loonies, who think he is one of them, while getting the Big Money--who know that he is a nice, malleable and manageable psychopath--behind him. He's their ideal candidate.

Brains do not matter.
Competence does not matter.
Intelligence does not matter.

The Imperial Residencies of Reagan & Bush2 proved that. In collusion with the complicit media, they can keep the populace hoodwinked indefinitely.

Sleaze matters, and Walker is drenched in it. Beware him.

vadermike

(1,416 posts)
6. we might get walker
Mon Mar 9, 2015, 11:03 PM
Mar 2015

Then what? He could win all the way.. do not underestimate him.. he is like W bush with the aw shucks persona and him not having a degree actually works in his favor.. i could easily see him winning 16 .. we better have our shit together..... ugh

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
9. I'm glad to see others taking the threat he poses seriously.
Mon Mar 9, 2015, 11:08 PM
Mar 2015

I was beginning to feel like Cassandra around here.

 

Dems to Win

(2,161 posts)
18. I'm with you, I definitely think Walker is a real threat
Mon Mar 9, 2015, 11:37 PM
Mar 2015

He's won, by hook or crook, 3 times in Wisconsin.

And, he has a couple of advantages over the presumptive Democratic nominee. No dynasty aspects, so I think he'd be a more formidable opponent than Bush. He'd get all the votes of people who don't want a Bush or Clinton to return to the WH.

He's also 20 years younger than Hillary. Obama beat McCain, Clinton beat Dole. But....Reagan won when he was the oldest person in the race. It's not an unbeatable factor, but it would work in his favor, imho.

Yes, we'd better get our act together. The thought of living in America with Scott Walker as president is a horror movie.

GusBob

(7,286 posts)
21. Oh I for one am taking him very seriously
Mon Mar 9, 2015, 11:47 PM
Mar 2015

This guy will smoke GWB in the worst president ever category. He is serious bad news

You're in Mental Health care iirc, this guy to me is a misanthrope with ambition. He will screw anyone over to become president. Hell in the past few days he has flip- flopped on agricultural issues ( farmers for walker be like: " he didn't only stab us in the back, he twisted the knife too&quot ,
and these DNR rules. ( direct quote from an outdoor editor. "Walker for sportsman? That's a fairy tale&quot

I feel horrible for my cheesehead friends. He is using the state to become president. Riding herd now on folks he mostly contempts

We thought Romney was bad with his 47% revelation. For this creep the number is much higher.

ALEC and the Koch brothers are his only concerns

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
12. George W Bush didn't have a bald spot and wasn't cross eyed.
Mon Mar 9, 2015, 11:10 PM
Mar 2015

I don't want to be shallow but things like that matter.


Also, Bush had the cowboy personae, albeit he was a drug store one, but those things matter too...


He also was associated with a brand that was popular at the time; the Bush brand.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
15. Our candidate will be well funded too...
Mon Mar 9, 2015, 11:14 PM
Mar 2015

We probably can't match them dollar for dollar but I suspect we will be close.

 

mr_liberal

(1,017 posts)
24. Bush is a bigger threat because he has appeal
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 12:46 AM
Mar 2015

to centrists and independents, and he automatically wins Florida.

Walkers appeal is more limited to conservatives and Republicans. And he would be seen by voters as not being very qualified imo. He doesn't have any charisma either.

 

AverageJoe90

(10,745 posts)
29. The only (plausible) way *any* Repug would be able to win in 2016, at this rate.....
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 07:24 AM
Mar 2015

Is with a *terrible* candidate on our side, and *massive* amounts of election fraud(aided by unconstitutional Voter ID laws)......unfortunately, however, we can't really discount the latter still causing damage, even if we do win the White House, not with Karl Rove, Richard Viguerie and the Koch Bros. still influential with the GOP.

vadermike

(1,416 posts)
20. yep
Mon Mar 9, 2015, 11:43 PM
Mar 2015

My GOP loving friends at work are practically frothing at the mouth for Walker.. i think it might be him and they will vote in droves over broken glass for him whereas with McAIN and Romney they werenet enthused... i think we may have a replay of 2000.. the GOP is good at twisting reality even though we will definitely have a somewhat booming economy by election day..... oh geez.. i guess if they get control of all three branches there effectively will not be a Dem Party anymore as long as the state governments stay the same.. this is a nightmare ready to happen IMO.... Shit better be piled up and ready to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
23. What will really be fascinating to watch is when Cruz starts taking him on. Because Walker is
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 12:29 AM
Mar 2015

occupying the space where Cruz wants to be.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
25. Scott Walker isn't ten feet tall...
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 12:52 AM
Mar 2015

He's from a small relatively homogeneous state. Wisconsin is as representative of America as Toluca Lake is representative of Greater Los Angeles.


pstokely

(10,529 posts)
27. In a higher turnout Presidential year, could either of them win their home states?
Tue Mar 10, 2015, 04:45 AM
Mar 2015

Walker won in low turnout elections in a mostly white state, but any of them can steal it again

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