April saw Walker’s national numbers deflate. From 17.3 percent on April 1, he fell .......
This is a few days old but I missed it earlier. snicker snicker. yet as nicolas says--walker is still in the running.
"Yet the governor [Scott Walker] has rarely shown much 
interest in what #Wisconsinites think"
http://bit.ly/1d4C9KG #wipolitics @WisGOP
John Nichols: The shine comes off Scott Walker
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May 11, 2015 5:15 am • JOHN NICHOLS | Cap Times associate editor
..........As Washington’s The Hill newspaper correctly noted last week, “Some air has come out of the Walker balloon.”
At the start of April, Walker was soaring. He was a relatively fresh face who seemed to combine establishment ties (as a sitting governor with support among the party’s billionaire donors) and an ability to appeal to base voters (especially evangelicals in Iowa). But it wasn’t just Iowa; Walker was showing national strength. On April 1, for the first time, he pulled ahead of the default candidate of the party elites, Jeb Bush, in the “poll of polls” aggregation of the Real Clear Politics website.
Walker was doing so well that he was being pictured as the clear rival to Bush. There was also talk that other candidates might decide not to wade into the Bush/Walker race.
But the month of April saw Walker’s national numbers deflate. From 17.3 percent on April 1, he fell to 12.3 percent in early May. He’s now more than three points behind Bush and he’s two points behind Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
That may not be the worst of it for Wisconsin’s governor. As The Hill notes, “Walker’s support has fallen in Iowa.” A February Quinnipiac poll had Walker at 25 percent in the first-caucus state, with a 12-point lead over the next closest contender. Now, while Walker’s still ahead, he’s down to 21 percent with just an eight-point lead over Rubio.
The real trouble is coming, however. Walker’s inability to secure his position means that more candidates are joining the race. Since Walker was peaking in late March and early April, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina and Mike Huckabee have all announced. And, while Rubio is getting strong numbers nationally, watch for Huckabee to eat right into Walker’s evangelical base in Iowa.
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