Poll: Crowley has slight advantage on Tiffany in Wisconsin governor’s race
Wisconsin registered voters slightly preferred David Crowley to Tom Tiffany in the state’s governor’s race, with the difference falling within the new Marquette Poll’s margin of error.
Crowley had a 46% to 45% advantage among registered voters and 49% to 46% advantage among likely voters in the governor’s race heading into the Nov. 3 general election.
The Marquette Poll was conducted Sept. 16-23, interviewing 843 Wisconsin registered voters, with margin of error of +/-4.3 percentage points. For likely voters, the sample size is 692 with a margin of error of +/-4.8 percentage points.
That’s an increase from the 49% to 44% advantage for Crowley among likely voters in August.
Crowley had an advantage among independent voters with 44% support compared to 18% for Tiffany while 95% of Republicans backed Tiffany, a Republican, and 96% of Democrats supported their party’s candidate, Crowley.
Crowley held a substantial lead in the Milwaukee and Madison media markets while Tiffany led in the Green Bay/Appleton markets.
Of those interviewed, 85% of Democrats said that they planned to vote in the general election while 78% of Republicans said that they plan to vote.
Among the registered voters who were poll, 35% say they heard a lot about Tiffany’s recent emergency plane landing on Lake Wausau while 45% heard a little and 20% heard nothing at all.
Likely Democrat voters had a 48% to 45% advantage in who the voters said that they plan to voter for in Wisconsin Legislature races while the Democrats had a one percentage point advantage among registered voters.
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