{"id":13106,"date":"2024-10-04T02:35:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T02:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13106"},"modified":"2024-10-04T02:57:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T02:57:21","slug":"cook-political-report-suggests-wisconsin-senate-race-tighter-than-polls-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13106","title":{"rendered":"Cook Political Report Suggests Wisconsin Senate Race Tighter Than Polls Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/cook-political-report-suggests-wisconsin-senate-race-tighter-than-polls-show\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/cook-political-report-suggests-wisconsin-senate-race-tighter-than-polls-show\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/tammy-baldwin-3.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"tammy baldwin\" title=\"FEMA\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 While recent polls covering the U.S. Senate race in Wisconsin show Democrat incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin with a 7-point lead over Republican challenger Eric Hovde, a project survey released this week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/analysis\/survey-research\/2024-swing-state-project\/swing-state-polling-finds-deadlocked-presidential#:~:text=A%20new%20Cook%20Political%20Report%20Swing%20State%20Project%20Survey%20conducted\">by Cook Political Report<\/a> suggests the race is one of the most competitive in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to its survey in August when Baldwin led by +7, Cook Political Report&#8217;s most recent numbers show she has a 2-point lead of 49%, compared to Hovde\u2019s 47% support.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, results from a recent Marquette Law School poll indicated Baldwin holds a substantial lead over her opponent, with 53% of both registered and likely voters choosing her versus 46% choosing Hovde in a head-to-head matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin\u2019s lead slightly narrowed to 5 points when respondents were allowed to choose undecided; 10% of registered voters reported they are undecided, while 48% went for Baldwin and 43% for Hovde.<\/p>\n<p>The poll, conducted Sept. 18-26, interviewed 882 registered voters and 798 likely voters in Wisconsin with both surveys having +\/-4.4 margin of error. The partisan makeup included 34% Republicans, 32% Democrats, and 34% Independents.<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin also continues to lead her opponent in favorability ratings, with an equal number of registered voter respondents having a favorable versus unfavorable view of her, 47% to 47%. Favorable and unfavorable ratings of Hovde have each risen as voters have become more familiar with his candidacy, with 36% of October respondents holding a favorable view of him versus 45% holding an unfavorable view, a net -9 favorability rating compared to Baldwin\u2019s net zero. But 18% of poll respondents still reported not knowing enough about Hovde to have an opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Both the MLS and Cook Political Report surveys found that the two candidates have largely consolidated their bases and Independent voters are leaning towards Baldwin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/cook-political-report-suggests-wisconsin-senate-race-tighter-than-polls-show\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 While recent polls covering the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":12453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13108,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13106\/revisions\/13108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}