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MILWAUKEE - The newly-released Marquette University Law School Poll says that two Democratic candidates for election in Wisconsin have opened up larger leads.
Democratic Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin, who represents Madison in Congress, leads former Wisconsin Republican Governor and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Serivces Tommy Thompson, 50 to 41 percent.
Thompson had led Baldwin by the same percentage in a previous version of the poll from August 16-19.
In the Presidential race, President Barack Obama (D) led Mitt Romney (R), 54-40.
According to poll director Prof. Charles Franklin, Mr. Obama grabbed a big bump from the Democratic National Convention. His 14 percent margin on Romney is the biggest of the year so far.
When it came to the Senate race, Franklin said independent voters supported Thompson back in August, 47-37 percent. This month, they supported Baldwin 50-38.
The poll had a margin of error of plus-or-minus 3.8 percent. 705 registered Wisconsin voters took part when the poll was conducted on Sept. 13-16.
http://www.todaystmj4.com/elections/stories/170361456.html
Bite me Reince!
Fox news 11
Poll administrators caution that respondents in the latest poll were more heavily Democratic than in previous Marquette polls. The September poll was two percentage points more Democratic and three points less Republican than average, however, still within the polls margin of error. When adjusted to average partisan makeup, Baldwins lead would be 48-43 percent, while Obamas lead would be 51-43 percent.
http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news/wisconsin/obama-baldwin-lead-in-wisconsin-in-september-2012
cr8tvlde
(1,185 posts)Ebadlun
(336 posts)Does this pollster have form?
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)Marquette University Law School Polls are pretty straight in my book.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts).
Blue Owl
(50,407 posts)Does. Not. Compute.
ananda
(28,866 posts)nt
Blue Owl
(50,407 posts)...put some fake cheese on that shit sandwich
Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)Dawgs
(14,755 posts)They look no better than Rasmussen, Gravis, or Purple Strategies. I would have to exclude them from my own analysis.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)BTW, Ras and Gravis are doing the same thing; trying to create an alternate narrative.
Dawgs
(14,755 posts)Oh well.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)Like WSJ-NBC. If there is an error I am fairly confident it is random.
Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)Frankly I'm quite surprised myself... I thought perhaps 5 points on Baldwin maybe 8 on Obama.
Echotrail
(349 posts)that take into account Romney's view of half of America.
It's the lead story in most of today's printed newspapers.
Heehee
Ebadlun
(336 posts)but it doesn't seem to have changed much. But he needs more votes, not less, so even if the long-term damage is only 1%, that will do.
Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)by kos
Yesterday we enjoyed Elizabeth Warren's surge in her Senate race in Massachusetts (another poll today added to Scott Brown's bad news). She isn't the only great Democrat enjoying a post-convention renaissance. The Senate race in Wisconsin between Democrat Tammy Baldwin and Republican Tommy Thompson has been turned upside down in a single week:
- more -
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/19/1133896/-Tammy-Baldwin-surges-in-Wisconsin-Senate-race
There's a chart at the link.