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Doyle now ahead in polls
The Badger Poll released Monday showed Doyle leading Green 50 percent to 36 percent, with Green Party candidate Nelson Eisman getting 3 percent. Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle and his wife served as Peace Corps Volunteers in Tunisia in the 1960's.
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The latest news is good for Gov. Jim Doyle and attorney general candidate Kathleen Falk.
With just a week to go until Election Day, both Democrats have double-digit leads in a new poll over their Republican opponents, U.S. Rep. Mark Green in the governor's race and J.B. Van Hollen in the attorney general's race.
The Badger Poll released Monday showed Doyle leading Green 50 percent to 36 percent, with Green Party candidate Nelson Eisman getting 3 percent. In the attorney general's race, Falk led Van Hollen 43 percent to 32 percent.
Spokesmen for both Republican candidates dismissed the results as unreliable.
Green spokesman Mike Prentiss said the new poll used just a small sample, was not limited to likely voters and took place over a week. Most polls are done over a period of two or three days.
The Badger Poll comes from the University of Wisconsin Survey Center in Madison. Between Oct. 18 and Oct. 26, polltakers measured the responses of 508 Wisconsin residents, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Charles Franklin, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was skeptical of the latest poll results, noting that a majority of other polls showed the governor's race much closer.
But UW-Madison political science professor Katherine Cramer Walsh, who is the Badger Poll's faculty director, told the Wisconsin State Journal that the longer length of time makes the poll more accurate because polltakers were able to reach subjects who are more difficult to contact.
Falk spokesman Adam Collins said the poll was in line with others showing Falk with a small lead.
"This poll is fairly reflective of what we've seen in this race," he said. "The people of Wisconsin have reacted well to Kathleen Falk's positive message about fighting crime and protecting consumers and the environment."
Falk, the Dane County executive and a former assistant attorney general, knocked off incumbent Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager in a Democratic primary last month. She is running against Van Hollen, a former U.S. attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin who also has served as district attorney in two Wisconsin counties.
Referendum questions: The Badger Poll also found 50 percent of registered voters said they favor a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and civil unions, while 46 percent oppose it. That's well within the poll's margin of error, indicating the election could be close.
As for the advisory referendum on whether to enact the death penalty in Wisconsin for people convicted of first-degree intentional homicide if the conviction is supported by DNA evidence, 59 percent of those responding to the poll favored it and 38 percent opposed it. But the margin narrowed considerably among the most likely voters - with 51 percent for and 44 percent against.
Also, when asked if they preferred life in prison with no chance for parole or the death penalty, 51 percent of respondents favored life in prison.
Anita Weier of The Capital Times contributed to this report.
Published: October 31, 2006
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