Doing Tammy’s Job For Her

Joe, Dar­rin, and Chad ought to be proud of themselves.

While they’ve cased the land­scape with nuclear mush­room clouds as far as ad-weary Wis­con­sin vot­ers can see on their tele­vi­sion sets and radios, all Tammy Baldwin’s had to do is run ads about her grand­par­ents and how she seems com­pletely inoc­cu­lous, when in fact she’s one of the most lib­eral, socialist-leaning rep­re­sen­ta­tives this state has ever sent to Congress.

But hey…eyes on the prize, right guys?

With Repub­li­cans engaged in a bit­ter pri­mary fight, Demo­c­ra­tic Con­gress­woman Tammy Bald­win has a lead over all her poten­tial GOP rivals in Wisconsin’s U.S. Sen­ate race.

The lat­est Ras­mussen Reports tele­phone sur­vey of Likely Wis­con­sin Vot­ers shows Bald­win receiv­ing 45% to 48% of the vote regard­less of which Repub­li­can she is matched against. She leads by mar­gins rang­ing from three to ten points.

The most com­pet­i­tive Repub­li­can at the moment is Eric Hovde, a wealthy polit­i­cal new­comer who has been adver­tis­ing heav­ily in his pri­mary bat­tle. He trails Bald­win by just three points (45% to 42%). For­mer GOP Con­gress­man Mark Neu­mann trails by six (48% to 42%), for­mer Gov­er­nor Tommy Thomp­son is seven points behind Bald­win (48% to 41%). The weak­est show­ing comes from Wis­con­sin State Assem­bly Speaker Jeff Fitzger­ald who is behind by dou­ble dig­its (47% to 37%).

This poll also takes away the one talk­ing point Team Tommy had going for it appar­ently — the one they could trounce Tammy with ease — that’s a lot of dam­age inflicted, self or otherwise.

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