Overreach!

The latest Rasmussen Poll shows  likely voters are backing Walker:

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters agree more with the Republican governor in his dispute with union workers. Thirty-eight percent (38%) agree more with the unionized public employees, while 14% are undecided…

…Thirty-eight percent (38%) of voters think teachers, firemen and policemen should be allowed to go on strike, but 49% disagree and believe they should not have that right. Thirteen percent (13%) are not sure.

Naturally there’s stark partisan divide.

Thirty-six percent (36%) of all voters say that in their state the average public employee earns more than the average private sector worker. Twenty-one percent (21%) say the government employee earns less, while 20% think their pay is about the same. Twenty-three percent (23%) are not sure.

With states across the country finding that benefits for public workers are becoming difficult to fund in the current economic climate, support for public employee unions has fallen.  Forty-five percent (45%) of Americans favor them, and 45% don’t. These findings include 21% who Strongly Favor such unions and 30% who are Strongly Opposed to them.

This can’t be good news to all the droogs in Madison.

54 thoughts on “Overreach!

  1. DG,

    There is really only one question that matters – but I’ll be posting that in a separate article today.

    Still:

    Seems like those who supported Walker in the last election are leaving him now in droves – like the unions who supported him, so that isn’t an approval poll of his present activities.

    Again – the only polls that matter were in November 10 and will be in November ’12.

  2. DG,

    Reagan’s polls after the PATCO firings didn’t look good either.

    Short term polls often cave in before long-term imperatives and eternal principles.

    that principle? We’ll get to that in my post in a few moments here.

  3. Care to document with actual factual reports that claim about the avalanche of violence on the left?

    Now you’re just being obtuse. You’ve missed the coverage of the racist attacks on black tea partiers? Captured on clear, unambiguous video?

    Of course you did – because it didn’t appear in the leftyblogs you seem to regard as the unalloyed truth!

    But here you go

    Or you missed the incident at Freedomworks Headquarters, where Tabitha Hale – a Twitter friend of mine – got punched by a union thug?

    Of course you did – because if it doesn’t get endorsed by the leftymedia chanting point vetting squad, you don’t recognize it, DG. You’ve been busted over and over at it!

    Try here; there are links from my piece.

    There will be more. The American left is fundamentally depraved. Not all of the American left, but the depravity on the left is much, much closer to the mainstream than it is on the right.

    Missed hte si

  4. You can complain about my sources if you like, but that doesn’t make the facts I present inaccurate.

    No, but when we show that your facts are inaccurate, then that makes your “facts” inaccurate.

    And someone in this section pretty much always does.

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