According to Rasmussen Reports, GOP candidate Mitt Romney now leads President Barack Obama for the first time in the campaign. The president's approval rating in this state has fallen in its lowest level to date. The lastest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey shows Romney with 47% of the vote to Obama's 44% of the vote. Five percent prefer some other candidate, whereas four percent are undecided.
Forty seven percent of the voters approve of the job President Obama is doing, where 52% of the voters disapprove of the job Obama is doing. Those findings also show 27% strongly approving of President Obama's job performance while 44% disapprove. Romney is approved favorably by 49% of Wisconsin voters while 45% of voters don't approve of him.
Just last week Republican Governor Scott Walker won the special recall election which was prompted by Democrats over Walker's attempts last year to limit collective bargaining rights for government employees. He also asked for public employees to contribute more to their pension and health care to help balance the state budget. 51% of voters in Wisconsin don't view public employee unions favorably whereas 46% of voters approve of public employee unions. I personally believe Scott Walker's victory in the recall election helped bolster voters' support for Mitt Romney. If Mitt Romney can win industrialized states such as Wisconsin and Ohio, for example, then Romney's chances for defeating Obama are greater.
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