Scott Walker, the GOP's Great Unknown

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Washington Examiner:

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is the leader in some national polls for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. He's also the least-known candidate in some surveys. There could be a relationship between those two factors.

 

Start with the new Fox News poll, done the last few days of March. Pollsters gave respondents, all registered voters, a list of seven Republican candidates — Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Walker and Ben Carson. "Please tell me whether you have a generally favorable or unfavorable opinion of each one," the pollsters asked. And then they added, "If you've never heard of one, please just say so."

 

Forty-three percent of respondents said they have never heard of Walker — the highest of any GOP candidate except Carson, with 54 percent. In addition, ten percent said they "can't say" their opinion of Walker. (Bush's never-heard-of number was eight percent, with ten percent "can't say.") Walker's total was 27 percent favorable, 21 percent unfavorable, with a combined 53 percent never-heard-of or can't-say.