Scott Walker was in Wisconsin for one day last week, but—he did not show his face publicly.
It is a fairly long article about his muck ups this summer.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/can-scott-walker-save-himself/404128/
Can Scott Walker Save Himself?
The Wisconsin governor’s presidential campaign is in free fall—a development that puzzles the state he has dominated.
Brian Snyder / Reuters
Molly Ball 6:17 AM ET
RACINE, Wis.—Scott Walker was in Wisconsin for one day last week, but—curiously for a governor who’s been criticized for being away from his home state—he did not show his face publicly.
I managed to catch a glimpse of him by parking outside an evening fundraiser in Racine, a lakefront community south of Milwaukee. There, I spied him for a few seconds, as he bolted from a big black Ford driven by a man in sunglasses through the doors of a bank building on Main Street, putting on his suit jacket as he walked. Campaign workers informed me that the sidewalk was private property and strongly discouraged me from approaching the donors who trickled in.
For the past four years, Walker has dominated Wisconsin. His bold agenda shattered the status quo, he shocked the left and united the right, and he couldn’t be beat. Recalled in 2012, challenged in 2014, he kept on fighting and kept on winning.
But having spent much of the year as the solid Iowa frontrunner, Walker suddenly finds his presidential campaign in free fall. Nationally, he’s dropped from first place in April to sixth today, barely ahead of Carly Fiorina. In Iowa, he has fallen to fourth, 20 points behind a surging Donald Trump. Graphs of Walker’s poll trajectory over the last year look like a hat: an upsurge, a long peak, and a steady decline.
“It’s gut check time for sure,” one prominent Republican who supports Walker told me.................
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