Wisconsin Protests

Another Day, Another Conservative Poll With Bad News For Scott Walker

Evan McMorris-Santoro | February 25, 2011, 3:05PM

Dick Morris

A day after a conservative poll of Wisconsin showed voters there overwhelmingly opposed to Gov. Scott Walker's (R) plan to eliminate collective bargaining for thousands of state workers, conservative stalwart Dick Morris dropped his own poll of the state showing a similar result.

Fifty-four percent of the respondents to Morris' poll said they were opposed to eliminating collective bargaining. Just 41% said they favored it.

The voters Morris polled did want some changes made to the union worker's compensation plan. Basically the same ones the union has already offered.

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Spending

Dick Morris: GOP Will Shut Down The Government Again (VIDEO)

Christina Bellantoni | August 30, 2010, 3:59PM

Conservative commentator Dick Morris

Republican pollster Dick Morris told conservative political activists that newly elected Republicans should shut down the government next year. Morris said the party must elect lawmakers who will stand up and say "No" to President Obama's requests for more government spending and predicted a repeat of how Republicans forced a shutdown under President Clinton after they won control of Congress.

"There's going to be a government shutdown, just like in '95 and '96 but we're going to win it this time and I'll be fightin' on your side," Morris said at the Americans for Prosperity Foundation Conference on Friday in Washington.

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Health Care

Is Right-Wing Mobilization On Health Care Against Targeted House Dems Working?

Eric Kleefeld | March 8, 2010, 2:49PM

Dick Morris

Conservative groups have been targeting key House Democrats in an ad campaign to stop the health care bill. So how much of it is working -- and how much of it is just annoying the offices involved?

A key example in the last week has been from a group called the League of American Voters, headed up by Dick Morris. The group has run a set of ads against swing-seat Democrats who voted for the bill. Targeted members have been Mike Arcuri (NY), Chris Carney (PA), Kathy Dahlkemper (PA), Baron Hill (IN), Steve Kagen (WI), Paul Kanjorski (PA), Dan Maffei (NY), Alan Mollohan (WV), Tom Perriello (VA), Nick Rahall (WV), and Mark Schauer (MI). The ad was later changed after Rep. Steve Kagen (D-WI) complained that the ad claimed he had already voted for an excise tax on health care benefits, which was in the Senate bill and not the House version that he did in fact support.

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