ICYMI: Rasmussen Reports Walker Leads Barrett 49%-40%

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Wauwatosa, Wis.– Scott Walker Campaign Manager Keith Gilkes said, “Wisconsin families are ready to take back their government and are flocking to Scott Walker’s plan to get our state back to work through low taxes, less government, and more freedoms.”

This week, Scott Walker announced a plan to bring 250,000 jobs and 10,000 new businesses to Wisconsin by 2015.  Walker also kicked off his brown bag lunch tour that outlines his Brown Bag Guide to Government that follows three basic principles:

Don’t spend more than you have.
Smaller government is better government.
People create jobs, not government.

In the final six months of 2009, the campaign reported over $2 million dollars cash on hand, with $1.79 million raised since the last reporting period.  Included in the report are also 18,580 donations from all seventy-two counties in Wisconsin.  Seventy-four percent of all donations were $50 or less, and $265,773 was raised online.

Election 2010: Wisconsin Governor
Wisconsin Governor: GOP Still Holds The Edge
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker remains the strongest Republican for now in the race against likely Democratic candidate Tom Barrett in the contest for Wisconsin governor.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state finds Walker leading Barrett, the mayor of Milwaukee, by nine points – 49% to 40%. Last month, in the first Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 survey of the race, Walker posted a 48% to 38% lead over Barrett.

But the other prominent GOP hopeful, former GOP Congressman Mark Neumann, is now in a virtual tie with Barrett. He leads the Democrat 44% to 42%. Last month, Neumann led Barrett by a 42% to 38% margin.

In both contests, 10% of voters are undecided, and one (1%) to four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate.

Democratic Governor Jim Doyle is not seeking reelection, and Barrett faces no major competition within his party for now. Republicans will pick a gubernatorial nominee in a September 14 primary.

Wisconsin incumbent Democratic Senator Russ Feingold leads his two best-known announced GOP challengers. The wild card is whether former Republican Governor Tommy Thompson joins the Senate race. Thompson holds a 48% to 43% edge over Feingold in that hypothetical match-up.

Both Republican gubernatorial hopefuls lead Barrett among male voters by 20 or more points. Female voters break almost evenly when Walker’s the Republican in the race but favor Barrett by 16 if he’s running against Neumann.

Voters not affiliated with either major party like the GOP candidate in both match-ups but again prefer Walker more strongly than Neumann.

Barrett is viewed very favorably by 22% of Wisconsin voters and very unfavorably by 18%.

For Walker, very favorables are 32% and very unfavorables 14%.

Eighteen percent (18%) have a very favorable opinion of Neumann, while 14% view him very unfavorably.

Very favorables for all three candidates have increased slightly over the past month. At this point in a campaign, Rasmussen Reports considers the number of people with a strong opinion more significant than the total favorable/unfavorable numbers.

Forty percent (40%) of voters in the state approve of Doyle’s performance as governor, up four points from a month ago. The new number includes 16% who strongly approve. Sixty percent (60%) disapprove of the job he’s doing as governor, with 40% who strongly disapprove.

Barack Obama carried Wisconsin with 56% of the vote in November 2008. Now 47% of Wisconsin voters approve of his performance as president, with 27% who strongly approve. Fifty-two percent (52%) disapprove of the job Obama is doing, including 38% who strongly disapprove. This is roughly in line with his job approval ratings in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll.

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