That's what Nation correspondent and Wisconsin resident, John Nichols, told Ed Schultz just now on the air. Why? Because behind the scenes discussions are going on between state senators on both sides of the issues. Both Democratic and Republican senators have decided to keep negotiating behind the governor's back.
Scott Walker is furious and has tried to do everything he can to stifle any compromise, any show of power on the part of the state senate. Nichols clearly thinks the senators will win the day.
Nichols has a summary today in the Nation. Wisconsin wants its Democratic governor back. That includes Republican Wisconsins.
Last fall, Walker defeated Democrat Tom Barrett.
Now, according to the Public Policy Polling survey of likely Wisconsin voters, Barrett would win by a 52-45 margin.
“The difference between how folks would vote now and how they voted in November can almost all be attributed to shifts within union households. Voters who are not part of union households have barely shifted at all- they report having voted for Walker by 7 points last fall and they still say they would vote for Walker by a 4 point margin. But in households where there is a union member voters now say they’d go for Barrett by a 31 point margin, up quite a bit from the 14 point advantage they report having given him in November,” explained the polling firm’s analysis.
“It’s actually Republicans, more so than Democrats or independents, whose shifting away from Walker would allow Barrett to win a rematch if there was one today. Only 3% of the Republicans we surveyed said they voted for Barrett last fall but now 10% say they would if they could do it over again. That’s an instance of Republican union voters who might have voted for the GOP based on social issues or something else last fall trending back toward Democrats because they’re putting pocketbook concerns back at the forefront and see their party as at odds with them on those because of what’s happened in the last month.”
