How Voters Feel About Economy Plays Key Role in Presidential Choice
New polling from Marquette University shows that Wisconsinites still suffering the effects of the recession favor Romney over Obama.
If the presidential election were held today, President Barack Obama would win in Wisconsin over Republican Mitt Romney by about 8 percentage points — 51 to 43 percent. But a closer look into the numbers revealed Wednesday in a new poll from Marquette University Law School shows a distinct divide among voters and whom they support when that question is linked to how they see the economy. It boils down to this: Survey respondents who said the recession really hasn't taken a toll on their personal finances back Obama, while Romney has an edge over those still hurting from the economic turn-down. Obama beats Romney by 51 percent to 44 percent among respondents who say they were affected by the recession but have now recovered. And among …
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9:40 pm on Friday, July 13, 2012
Unfortunately Mike, this goes way back to the Patriot Act under the second Bush, the war on drugs and expansion of police powers under Reagan and Bush the first, and the global bankers that hoodwinked Woodrow Wilson with the Fed Reserve. Yes, not just Wisconsin, but a nation of morons that think voting "conservative" or "liberal, if they even vote at all, think the system is going to change based… more ›