New Poll: Walker approval rating down to 43% in WI (support collapses among indies)

[WI_DEM]

Gov. Scott Walker's bitter standoff with Democrats and labor unions in Wisconsin has turned the newly elected Republican into a deeply polarizing figure, eroded his standing and left him struggling to win the battle for public opinion, a flurry of recent polls suggests.

In one new survey, 54% of Wisconsinites disapprove of Walker's performance while 43% approve. Walker is viewed less favorably than either of his main antagonists in the state's stormy budget debate: public employee unions and Democrats in the Legislature. And after just two months in office, he inspires more intense feelings - pro and con - than President Barack Obama does in Wisconsin.

Those findings come from a statewide poll of 603 adults taken Feb. 27 through Tuesday for a conservative think tank that has surveyed regularly in the state, the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute.

But the WPRI survey suggests that Walker's standing among self-identified independents has slipped substantially since his election (41% approval and 56% disapproval). According to exit polls, Walker won 56% of the "independent" vote last fall.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/117472988.html

[still_one]

1. What did these independents think they were going to get when they voted for walker? /nt

[CTD]

2. That's still a lot higher than the 20% approval he ought to have

Since we all know that 20% seems to be rock-bottom for even the most flat out insane/criminal/incompetent right-winger as 20% are at least as insane/incompetent.

[reformist2]

4. Yes. But even Nixon had a 23% approval the day he resigned.

[cognoscere]

5. What annoys the hell out of me (and will probably be the greatest

incentive to move to IL, is that 43% of the people in WI are shitheads.

[thereismore]

3. If he doesn't get recalled it will be amazing. If he gets re-elected, it will be a miracle. nt

[Poboy]

6. This cannot be true. Dick the toesucker said the opposite just yesterday!