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Wisconsin: Scott Walker tanking
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Mar 01, 2011 02:09pm |
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| Author | Michael Tomasky |
| Media | Newspaper - Guardian |
| News Date | Tuesday, March 1, 2011 07:25:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Lots of folks are buzzing today about the NYT poll:
Americans oppose weakening the bargaining rights of public employee unions by a margin of nearly two to one: 60 percent to 33 percent. While a slim majority of Republicans favored taking away some bargaining rights, they were outnumbered by large majorities of Democrats and independents who said they opposed weakening them.
Those surveyed said they opposed, 56 percent to 37 percent, cutting the pay or benefits of public employees to reduce deficits, breaking down along similar party lines. A majority of respondents who have no union members living in their households opposed both cuts in pay or benefits and taking away the collective bargaining rights of public employees.
Heartening numbers, to be sure. But they're national numbers, probably disproportionately including blue staters, since the blue states have most of the population. The more relevant thing here would be to find numbers from Wisconsin, right, since that's where we face the matter at hand. There, perhaps, in the land of Joe McCarthy, things might look better for Scott Walker? Not so much. |
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