Polls Yield Contrary Results on Wisconsin Governor Race

An Emerson poll on Friday gave Evers, state superintendent of public instruction, a lead of 51 to 46 percent over two-termer Walker. The margin of error was +/-4.1 percent.

This outcome stood in contrast to the results of a Marquette University School of Law poll released two days earlier.  Marquette showed Walker and Evers tied at 47 percent each.  In this poll, the margin of error was +/-3.2 percent.

This campaign has been one of the hardest-fought and most incendiary of any in 2018.  In large part, this is because of the governor himself. Six years after he pushed through an end to collective bargaining for many public employees through the legislature and survived a recall movement that drew worldwide attention, Walker still remains a hated figure by the left.

“I say it will be Walker by 50.5 percent,” Madison attorney John Schulze, Jr., head of a government relations firm, told Newsmax, “He governs very conservatively, has the burden of Trump to carry, and is running for his old office after losing a bid for a higher one [Walker briefly sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2016].”

But Schulze also pointed out that “unemployment here is at a record low, tuition is frozen, and property taxes are low. Most voters know who is responsible for this and that should be enough for Walker to win.”