WI’s Walker leads all comers in latest poll

By M.D. Kittle | Wisconsin Reporter

MADISON – Candidate Walker is looking pretty good in 2014, according to the latest numbers from a liberal-leaning polling firm.

Public Policy Polling calls its new polling data a “mixed bag” for Gov. Scott Walker, but the Republican incumbent leads every Democratic challenger in next year’s race for governor. Here’s the score, according to PPP:

Walker is up 47 percent to 43 percent in a hypothetical head-to-head against Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca of Kenosha. The governor leads former Trek executive Mary Burke of Madison 48 percent to 42 percent. And he’s up by 7 percentage points on state Sen. Kathleen Vinehout of Alma. Walker outpaces Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson 47 percent to 40 percent.

The governor leads by 5-10 points with independents in all four match-ups, and takes an average of 12 percent of the Democratic vote while losing only 7 percent of Republicans, PPP notes.

Name recognition is a problem for the would-be challengers, none of whom has officially declared their candidacy some 13 and a half months before the November 2014 election.

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