A new PPP survey finds that Scott Walker’s actions in Wisconsin have caused Obama’s approval ratings to soar in the state, and made the president Wisconsin’s favorite 2012 choice.
According to PPP, President Obama now has a 52% job approval rating is Wisconsin. The President’s disapproval rating has fallen to 44%. The spread between his approval/disapproval has doubled since the last time the poll was taken. How blue is this state? Obama has more Republicans who approve of his job performance (11%) than Democrats who disapprove (8%).
The problem for the potential 2012 Republican nominees is that the actions of Gov. Scott Walker seem to have seriously damaged the Republican brand in the state. The potential 2012 candidates are very unpopular in Wisconsin. The current frontrunner, Mitt Romney has a 29% favorable rating in the state. His unfavorable rating is 49%. Sarah Palin fares a little better with a 32% favorable rating, but a huge 63% unfavorable rating. After picking a fight with Wisconsin’s own Paul Ryan over Medicare, Newt Gingrich has a 15% favorable rating, and a 67% unfavorable rating.
In the potential head to head 2012 match ups, Obama leads Mitt Romney by 12 points, 51%-39%. The President leads Newt Gingrich by 18 points, 53%-35%, and he crushes Sarah Palin by 19 points, 55%-36%. Obama has expanded his lead over Romney by 2 points. His lead over Gingrich has grown by 6 points, and his lead over Palin is unchanged. Paul Ryan runs closest to Obama in state, and even he loses, 50%-43%.
Obama won Wisconsin in a blow out in 2008 and if voters were unsure about supporting Obama in 2012, the combination of Scott Walker’s leadership and a truly horrifying crop of Republican candidates has cleared up any doubts.
As we have seen in Florida and Ohio, the 2010 crop of unpopular Republican governors is doing serious damage to the GOP’s hopes of defeating Obama in 2012. The policies of John Kasich and Rick Scott have pushed Obama’s approval ratings higher in their states. While Wisconsin is losing some of its presidential swing state reputation, Scott Walker’s whipping up of a feverish animosity towards the GOP brand has virtually destroyed any chance the GOP has of winning the state in 2012.
Assuming he doesn’t get recalled, can you imagine the 2012 GOP nominee campaigning with Scott Walker in Wisconsin? How about hitting the stump with John Kasich in Ohio, Rick Scott in Florida, or Rick Snyder in Michigan? These governors are political poison, yet the Republican nominee will have to go to these swing states in the fall and share the stage with some of the most unpopular politicians in America.
In April political scientist Larry Sabato released his first 2012 Electoral College map. Sabato has Obama starting out with 247 electoral votes. The President will only need 23 for reelection. Ohio and Florida are both listed as swing states with Wisconsin and Michigan leaning towards Obama. If Obama wins only Ohio’s 18 electoral votes, he will be sitting just 5 votes short of reelection. If the President wins Florida, he wins reelection.
It may turn out that it doesn’t matter who the Republicans nominate, because Governors like Walker, Snyder, Scott, and Kasich will have already ensured Obama’s reelection.
These governors not only overreached in 2011, but their collective unpopularity may get Obama reelected in 2012.
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Walker is just a crosseyed hijacker, The world is learning that all these teabaggers believe they can force their ideas on us against our will..and guess what… we’re gonna vote them all back out of office in every city and in every state.
@Dan, your reference to Walker being “crosseyed” is more telling than you may realize. Actually, he isn’t “crosseyed” per se. Take a good look at the picture accompanying this article. Notice how different his eyes are! His left eye is a good 1/4″ higher than the other, is set deeper, and seems to have drifted off to his left a bit. Facial asymmetry this extreme indicates an imbalance in the brain and is associated with impaired cognition, psychopathy, and bad behavior, all of which Walker acts out daily in spades.
Try this: cover up one side of his face with your finger. Then cover up the other side. Wow! He is two different people! This can’t be a good sign. (This works even better if you use a hand mirror held perpendicular to the screen to produce a left-side-only face and a right-side-only face. Amazing!)
Dan,
You are so right-on regarding the Teabaggers. Just enough got elected in Tennessee they thought they had been annointed kings and/or dictators. They did not. They will be gone next year. Unfortunately, they managed to wreck a moderate Rethug Guv’s chances and agenda in a mere five months’ time.
So long, Baggers, we will not miss ya’ll at all.
First, though, something is going to have to be done about their gerrymandering and various vote-rigging preparations, because I don’t think the Living Dead are preparing to return quietly to their tombs.
Given the recent developments, I’d almost say you could put Florida (29 electoral votes, all we actually need!) into the leans Dem category. All those seniors are mighty touchy about thier medicare! And I think MO might be a toss up state, now.
I like your optimism. I am betting on your predictions. If the republiscum keep it up, we might get rid of so many that we can regain the house. I understand there are concerns about the senate.
Way to many dem senators up for reelection.
I guarantee you, FL is leaning in the Dem/Obama category. All you had to do was elect Rick Scott and in less than a year he has turned the Republican brand into mud.
Does the fact that this article doesn’t mention Tim Pawlenty mean that he is not even in the running? I would expect him not to be after supporting Scott Walker as heavily as he has. He left MN with a 6.2 billion dollar deficit. :/
I surely hope and pray,that the voters Do Not Forget,or get sidetracked by ANYTHING any Repub/Teapub is saying before the elections.They best remember that it has come down to pretty much this:If a Republican is talking,or making any promises,these days.they are lying,simple as that!None of them mean ANYTHING they say,or promise,to get elected,and no Repub gives a damn about their people,accept to get a vote from them.If anyone thinks otherwise,they are just asking to LOSE THINGS-Benefits,Medicare Soc.Sec.,Medicaid,food stamps,college loans,decent schools,you name it,the Rethugs want to keep it from YOU AND ME!
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In their frenzy to make their states over into regressive police states, all these governors are doing is to ensure that it will be a long time, if ever, before Republicans are elected again in those states. I have never seen buyers’ remorse against elected officials develop so quickly after they were elected. The citizens in these states are experiencing firsthand what a Tea Party regime is like, and they are rebelling. It’s ironic, because the Tea Partiers are supposedly “rebelling” themselves, when actually they are financed in part by the Koch brothers who couldn’t care less about most Americans. Scott Walker is a male version of Sarah Palin: dense, delusional, mentally disturbed, and power-hungry. With every reckless move he makes, he hammers one more nail in the coffin of any future political ambitions he might have. If he, Palin, or anyone like either of them, were ever elected as president, the dire consequences we are seeing in these states would be magnified 1,000 times. It’s unfortunate that so many people had to learn the hard way that President Obama is their ally, not their enemy.
Amen
Now you just have to ask yourself one question, ‘Why would you WANT Obama to be re-elected?’
Duh….. So a repub or teapublican doesn’t rape the entire country like they are raping the states they were elected to….
Between Walker, the Koch Bros and Ryan, Wisconsin hopefully will be voting Democratic come 2012. The midterms were the worse case of buyers remorse in a very long time. The GOP has spent more time on killing abortion rights, and blocking Obama on everything, and cutting everything important to struggling Americans. We cannot forget!
I used to work under Scott (Skippy) Walker when he was our County Executive. In 2006 he was told not to bother running for Governor because he wouldn’t get enough votes. Only with the Koch brother’s money could he run and win. He was a yahoo then and as glad as we were to get rid of him, we were shocked that he actually MADE it as Governor.
He tried to ruin Milwaukee County and we are trying to recover but now with Koch money and advice, this yahoo is ruining things at a higher level but on what the Koch brothers tell him to do. He’s too stupid to ruin us all on his own!
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