Ha ha this is a good take down: It's Getting Lonely on Scott Walker's Sinking Ship

[BeckyDem]

The onetime Republican golden boy has never recovered from his failed presidential run.
By John Nichols


Today 12:59 pm


Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker really would have preferred to be sitting in the White House just now. But he got trumped in his bid for the 2016 Republican nomination by a candidate who was better at practicing the “divide-and-conquer” politics that the anti-labor zealot pioneered in the upper Midwest.

Walker briefly led Republican presidential polls in 2015. Then he was shredded by Donald Trump, who turned the hapless frontrunner’s record into a negative—telling conservative crowds that: “Wisconsin’s doing terribly. First of all, it’s in turmoil. The roads are a disaster because they don’t have any money to rebuild them. They’re borrowing money like crazy… The schools are a disaster, and they’re fighting like crazy because there’s no money for the schools. The hospitals and education is a disaster.”

That blunt assessment from a fellow Republican exposed Walker as a blustering bumbler who got high marks from right-wing media but low marks for actual accomplishments. Walker’s presidential poll numbers tanked—so completely that he quit the race as an asterisk. Always quick to put party ahead of principle, Walker soon pledged his loyalty to the man who had crushed his own ambitions and became President Trump’s errand boy in the heartland.

Now, the governor who dreamed of being president is stuck in Wisconsin, slogging his way through another run for the job he tried to put behind him. It is not going well. The Real Clear Politics survey of recent polls has Democrat Tony Evers, the state’s mild-mannered Superintendent of Public Instruction, leading Walker by four points.

https://www.thenation.com/article/its-getting-lonely-on-scott-walkers-sinking-ship/

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Expecting Walker to file Bankruptcy

next year. Reason,sounds like he was able to hold off the Banks as long as he stayed in office. Understand he is north of 2 million in the hole. Never seen any stories of him addressing his personal finance issues for the last three years. Or did the Koch Brothers buy he debt?

[bitterross]

2. 4 points is far too slim a margin. He should be further behind.

4 points is easy to steal. They've done it over and over again.

[alwaysinasnit]

4. +1000 Too damn close for comfort.

[BeckyDem]

6. Opinions differ:

The Forecast: Republican Gov. Scott Walker is an underdog

Analysis By Harry Enten, CNN

Updated 5:59 PM ET, Mon October 22, 2018
GOP could still keep House majority


Excerpt:

Senate forecast: Republicans will hold 51 seats (and maintain control of the Senate) next Congress while Democrats will hold just 49. Anything between Republicans holding 47 seats and 56 seats is within the margin of error.
Four years ago, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was on his way to winning his second full-term as the state's governor. He had beaten back a recall attempt two years earlier and seemed destined to be a top tier candidate in the 2016 Republican presidential primary. Then Donald Trump came. Walker was one of the first to bow out of the presidential race in 2015.
Today, Walker is an underdog for re-election.

I re-ran my Senate model, but substituted in the recent polling from the Wisconsin governor's race. The forecast was for Walker to lose by 4 percentage points to Democrat Tony Evers.

Now, the margin of error (+/- 12 percentage points) in this forecast is certainly wide enough to give Walker a chance. Walker held a 1 point advantage in a poll conducted by the best pollster in the state (the Marquette University Law School poll) earlier this month.

Evers though has clearly led in the polling throughout the campaign. Of the nine non-partisan polls taken, Walker has only led in two of them (22%). Evers has led in six (67%). One of them was a tie (11%).

This is vastly different than any of Walker's previous campaigns. According to RealClearPolitics, Walker led in every single nonpartisan poll during his successful 2010 bid. Walker led in all but two nonpartisan polls in his 2012 recall campaign, and he led in every single poll within three months of the recall. Even in his 2014 re-election campaign, when Walker was polling his weakest, he still only trailed in five of 25 (25%) of polls taken.


https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/22/politics/forecast-scott-walker-underdog/index.html

[BigGermanGuy]

3. walker quit

because the kochs told him they weren't going to waste money since trump was in the race.

[marble falls]

10. Walker quit what?

[dembotoz]

5. walker support remains strong

[geardaddy]

7. Agreed. Excellent take down!

[Honeycombe8]

8. Great! If there's any justice in the world, this joker will lose by a landslide. nt

[BeckyDem]

9. It will be a great win.

[Demovictory9]

11. Fingers. Crossed

[Cha]

12. Walker ran for potus? Oh yes..

Walker briefly led Republican presidential polls in 2015. Then he was shredded by Donald Trump, who turned the hapless frontrunner’s record into a negative—telling conservative crowds that: “Wisconsin’s doing terribly. First of all, it’s in turmoil. The roads are a disaster because they don’t have any money to rebuild them. They’re borrowing money like crazy… The schools are a disaster, and they’re fighting like crazy because there’s no money for the schools. The hospitals and education is a disaster.”

And, this is FUCKING trump RIGHT NOW.