Former President Donald Trump won the 2016 South Carolina Republican primary by 10 points and could be primed to crush those results in 2024. A new Fox Business poll on the GOP nomination race shows Trump with a 34-point lead in the Palmetto State, as over half believe he’s the […] Read more »
Walker trails in race for Wisconsin governor
Republican Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin is behind by double digits in his re-election bid, while Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin is comfortably ahead as a near majority of likely voters say they prefer Democrats to control Congress, according to a new NBC News/Marist poll of the state. CONT. Mark Murray, […] Read more »
Scott Walker, other GOP candidates in key Midwest states trail Democratic rivals
New polls in three key Midwestern states show Republican Senate and gubernatorial candidates trailing their Democratic counterparts in hypothetical matchups — particularly GOP Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin, where only a third of voters say he deserves to be re-elected and where he trails his leading Democratic challenger by more […] Read more »
How Conservatives Bet Big on Wisconsin and Won
The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics By Dan Kaufman Hardcore conservatives adore infrastructure, and they’re phenomenally good at building it. This isn’t to say they’re necessarily committed to constructing roads and bridges and dams; it’s the infrastructure of their own […] Read more »
One year, two races: Inside the Republican Party’s bizarre, tumultuous 2015
The year 2015 will be remembered as one of the most bizarrely compelling and yet genuinely unnerving in the nation’s modern political history. It is clear now that there were two halves to the year for the Republican Party: BT and AT, Before Trump and After Trump. From January to […] Read more »
Obama and Walker: four years of Wisconsin polling — and polarization
When the Marquette University Law School launched its massive statewide polling project four years ago, Wisconsin voters were split straight down the middle over President Barack Obama: 47% approved and 47% disapproved. Thirty polls later, little has changed. … Wisconsin could hardly be more polarized along party lines over its […] Read more »