Wisconsin
McCain Still Top GOP Dog In Battleground States
As tracked here at Smart Politics over the past few months, John McCain continues to prove to be the strongest Republican candidate to defeat the Democrats in 2008. McCain consistently, and by wide margins, polls better than his chief GOP…
Read MoreA Thompson Leads GOP Pack in Wisconsin? (Fred, Not Tommy)
In one of the few statewide Wisconsin presidential primary polls conducted this year, a new Badger Poll finds a Thompson atop the GOP field. Whether it is a case of false name recognition or whether he has built a surprising…
Read MoreWisconsinites Overwhelmingly Back Tough Measures Against Illegal Immigrants
A new poll of 500 likely Wisconsin voters by Rasmussen Reports demonstrates how immigration remains a largely non-partisan issue among the electorate, even while there is a partisan divide on the issue between the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates. Wisconsin…
Read MorePolitical Influence of Upper Midwest In Decline?
Iowa’s influence on presidential politics is in the spotlight right now, with its caucuses now just 37 days away, on January 3, 2008. The winner of each party’s caucus is by no means guaranteed to go on and win the…
Read MoreMcCain Continues To Pose Biggest Threat to Dems in Battleground States
John McCain, long ago the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, has been polling a distant fourth in national surveys in recent weeks (behind Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, and Fred Thompson), and even polled in fifth place behind Mike Huckabee in…
Read MoreClinton Outperforms Obama in WI Matchups; McCain Strongest Republican
Hillary Clinton continues to outpoll all of her leading GOP rivals in matchup polls in the Badger State, according to a new SurveyUSA poll conducted November 9-11. Clinton also performs better than Barack Obama against these Republican contenders. Overall,…
Read MoreClinton Unable To Pull Away from GOP in WI
A new survey of likely Wisconsin voters finds Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in a dead heat against three of the top four Republican candidates. Even though Wisconsin has not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1984, and even though…
Read MoreClinton Not Gaining Ground In Wisconsin
Despite surging to large double-digit leads in national Democratic presidential nomination polls, Hillary Clinton’s support in the Badger State appears to remain stagnant. In the most recent Gallup national poll taken in mid-August, Clinton had a 21-point lead over Barack…
Read MoreSen. Feingold Calls for Censure of President Bush
Wisconsin Democratic junior Senator Russ Feingold called for the censure of President George W. Bush on Sunday. Feingold issued a press release stating he will introduce two censure resolutions condemning not only President Bush, but also Vice President Dick…
Read MoreSenators Harkin and Feingold Don’t View Terrorist Threat In Iraq To Be In U.S. National Security Interest
In one of many votes held during a late night session on Capitol Hill Tuesday night, the U.S. Senate overwhelming passed an amendment expressing: The sense of the Senate that it is in the national security interest of the United…
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