Such was the lack of interest in the race that there were only three polls conducted of Democratic voters in the first half of 1991.
The Republicans' private conduct deserves public scrutiny, he argued, because they made family values such a central issue in their campaigns and were so critical, in some cases, of the personal conduct of their Democratic opponents.
It is time to have a broader look at how we conduct the business of democratic representative government.
A series of polls conducted for Democratic groups showed a roughly tied race instead.
The study, conducted for Democratic members of the House Government Reform Committee, focused on 40 Congressional districts in 20 states.
That report may also deal with the conduct of Nathan Landow, a Democratic fund-raiser who was being investigated in connection with accusations that the president had made a sexual advance to a White House volunteer, Kathleen E. Willey.
For that matter, if, during the past year, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell had summoned patriotism in the face of multiple threats to the norms of democratic conduct, then we might not be in this mess.
One of the new polls over the weekend, from Public Policy Polling, which conducts polling on behalf of Democratic clients as well as publishes its own polls independently, showed a somewhat tighter race, with Mr. Walker's Democratic opponent, Mayor Tom Barrett of Milwaukee, having closed his deficit to three percentage points.
The surveys were conducted by a team of Democratic pollsters: John Anzalone, Sergio Bendixen (among Latino voters), Cornell Belcher, Diane Feldman, Lisa Grove and Paul Harstad.
