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I have been searching for polling on this election and have found none. Of course I think I suck at searching, but still. I did find this article. I'm not posting it entirely. I believe that this election is really important as I fear a Republican victory might take some wind out of Progressive sails. If Prosser wins there is no doubt that Walker will hold yet another press conference. Only this time he'll have something to crow about. And I have to admit that it would make me wonder if the recall effort for the Republican 8 would fall short. Here's some of the article but it had no polling numbers.
Gov. Scott Walker scored the biggest victory of his political career when he signed his contentious collective bargaining bill into law earlier this month. Now his opponents are itching for payback, and it appears they're going to start taking out their frustrations on conservative state Supreme Court Justice David Prosser.
The April 5 Supreme Court election is just two and a half weeks away, thrusting the conservative-leaning Prosser squarely into the sights of angry Democrats and union supporters. One interesting twist in this year's race: Both candidates took $300,000 in public financing for their campaigns, meaning they cannot accept donations from interest groups or individuals.
In a December press release, Prosser, former Republican speaker of the state Assembly, said his campaign would be about "protecting the conservative judicial majority and acting as a common sense complement to both the new (Walker) administration and (Republican-controlled) Legislature." Prosser said he did not authorize the statement but Kloppenburg criticized it as revealing his partisan leanings.
The race is officially nonpartisan, but defeating an incumbent justice who tends to side with the court's 4-3 conservative majority would send a "shock wave" through the Republican Party, said Jim Palmer, executive director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association. Palmer noted in an email to The Associated Press the WPPA hasn't endorsed a candidate yet, but said the labor debate will play a huge role in the election.
Christina Brey, spokeswoman for the Wisconsin Education Association Council, the state's largest teachers union, said her organization hasn't endorsed anyone yet, either.
Kloppenburg's supporters were working the crowd at the largest rally at the Capitol on March 12, urging people to vote for her as "the next step" in the fight. But Kloppenburg's campaign manager, Melissa Mulliken, deflected suggestions the election has become a referendum on Walker. She said Kloppenburg wants to remain impartial.
"It's good for democracy - with a little ‘d' - to have more people interested in elections and voting and participating," Mulliken said.
Prosser's campaign manager, Brian J. Nemoir, said he expects Walker's opponents will try to make the election about Walker. That's unfair to Prosser, who is nobody's puppet, Nemoir said, referring to signs at the Capitol that tie Prosser to the billionaire David Koch, whose political organization, Americans for Prosperity, supported Walker's campaign and his budget-repair bill.
"Any suggestion that he stands lock-step with ... Walker or anyone really shows a misunderstanding of who this man is," Nemoir said. "It's really a breach of his integrity. It's the easy way for them to leverage an environment right now that is super-charged."
Prosser, though, is a formidable opponent. He has spent 12 years as a justice and has name recognition. In the February primary, he easily out polled the other three candidates, placing first with 55 percent of the vote, compared with Kloppenburg's second-place finish with 25 percent.
The conservative Club for Growth spent at least $321,000 in independent ads favoring Prosser before the primary, according to government watchdog group Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.
The liberal Greater Wisconsin Committee began running anti-Prosser commercials Friday, but the cost of the reported statewide ad buy was not revealed.
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