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Baldwin-Hovde, Trump-Harris Nearly Dead Even in 2 More Wisconsin Polls

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Wisconsin’s Senate race between incumbent Democrat Tammy Baldwin and Republican challenger Eric Hovde are nearly dead even, polls from Emerson College and Trafalgar Group showed. The results are like a Quinnipiac poll of 1,108 likely voters showing the two candidates are too close to call. The Emerson College poll of 800 likely Wisconsin voters had each candidate at 48% support in a poll conducted Oct. 21-22 through contacting the cell phones of potential voters (61% of respondents) and an online panel of voters (39%). The Emerson poll had Donald Trump with 49% support and Kamala Harris with 48% in the state. Nearly 65% of the 1.2% of undecided voters said that they lean toward Harris while 35% lean toward Trump. The poll showed that nearly 42% of voters believe the economy is the most important issue facing the state while 17% said threats to democracy, 10% said abortion access and 9% each said immigration and housing affordability. Of those surveyed, 46% said they voted...

Poll: Hovde-Baldwin, Harris-Trump Too Close to Call in Wisconsin

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Wisconsin’s Senate race between incumbent Democrat Tammy Baldwin and Republican challenger Eric Hovde is too close to call, according to a new Quinnipiac Poll. Baldwin has 49% support amount the 1,108 likely voters polled from Oct. 17-21 while Hovde saw 48% of the support in a poll with a 2.9% margin of error, making it too close to call. That’s a tightening from an Oct. 9 poll that showed Baldwin with 50% support compared to 46% for Hovde. The toss-up call is similar to how the Cook Political Report sees the race. The two faced off in what was expected to be their only debate Friday evening. The Quinnipiac Poll has run since 1994 and uses a random sampling of adults using random digit dialing with live interviewers calling both cell phones and land lines. The poll also showed Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are tied with 48% support from likely voters in the presidential race in the state. All third party candidates received less than 1% support. That compares to an Oct. 9...

Parent Says Slinger School District Trains Subs to Treat Kids Differently by Race

"...You are taught to treat individuals differently in the classroom by the color of their skin," a parent says. A parent dialed into a Slinger School Board meeting and accused the district of training substitute teachers to treat children differently based on their race. A video of the woman's comments was posted on YouTube by Washington County Insider on June 22, 2021, and is going national . You can watch the woman's comments below; Her name is Robynn Hora. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQOq1Jsurqo Wisconsin Right Now has contacted the Slinger School District's superintendent and the School Board president to seek their comment. A response, if received, will be added into this article. In the meeting, Daren Sievers, the Slinger superintendent, said, “Certainly CRT is not in our curricular cycle right now." The Woman Claims Substitute Teachers Are Told It's Racist to Be 'Colorblind' https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/14...