Marquette Law School Poll: Ben Carson moves to frontrunner position for Wisconsin GOP votersAccording to Marquette University Law School’s November poll, Wisconsin voters consider willingness to compromise on a presidential candidate’s part more …
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Poll director Charles Franklin says the GOP field could be in for a shake-up soon. “But I think it reflects on the fact that people are more focused on the presidential politics than on the Senate race at this point”, Franklin said.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio with 18 percent and Texas Sen.
Former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold is running against Republican Senator Ron Johnson, who beat him six years ago and became Wisconsin’s senior U.S. senator when Herb Kohl retired.
Among Democrats, NBC News’ polls found Clinton is outpacing U.S. Sen. It had an nearly even split among Republican and Democratic respondents, giving it a margin of error of +/- 6.5 percent. Bernie Sanders of Vermont 64 percent to 27 percent – a typical size lead for the former secretary of state in the S.C. campaign.
Clinton led Sanders by 9 points in November, but now has a 2-point edge, 45-43. Only three percent said they would be more likely to vote for a Muslim presidential candidate. The gap between Clinton and Sanders in November was 50% and 41% respectively.
In addition, 59 percent of women and 53 percent of Catholics report feeling very anxious about Trump as president, both more than 20 percentage points higher than for Rubio, Cruz, Sanders or Clinton.
But 30 percent of independents were undecided, and the rest chose candidates who pulled in only single-digit percentages.
The governor’s job approval held steady at 38 percent, with 57 percent disapproving of the job he’s doing. Twenty-one percent said they were in favor of requiring undocumented immigrants to leave the USA, while 17 percent supported a temporary guest worker alternative.
The poll also found that 56 percent of Republican voters thought Trump would be a good or great president, even though voters view being religious as an asset for USA presidential candidates, especially for Republicans.
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The latest poll was conducted by phone from January 21st through the 24th – with 806 registered voters. Both polls found that 42 percent said it has stayed the same.
