There was a time when Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker debuted as the frontunner for the Republican nomination for president, but Walker has seen his support collapse like no other candidate in the race.
Like me you may have been amused when polls showed Walker's support dropping to 3 percent, but a CNN/ORC poll released yesterday showed his support dropping to 0 percent.
Madison (WKOW) -- A new national poll shows Governor Scott Walker polling at 0 percent in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. [...]
Another category Walker falters in is recognition. Walker has the second-worst polling numbers in name recognition. The poll shows 25 percent of likely Republican voters say they've never heard of him. All other candidates except for Ohio governor John Kasich were more recognizable to likely Republicans.
Walker's lack of name recognition may be more surprising to me than his collapse in support and it's undoubtedly related.
If a quarter of the lunatic base of primary voters have never heard of Walker, they must not be aware that his crusade against unions purportedly prepared him for the fight against ISIS.
Unless he is able to recover, there may come a time very soon when Scott Walker discovers that the Koch Brothers never really valued him in the way he supposes; that he is just a useful idiot who is no longer useful.
On the other hand, this may be a sign that the Koch Brothers and their Americans for Prosperity group have been eclipsed. I necessarily infer that Scott Walker's popular support has always been inflated by the Kochs and it's possible they no longer have substantial influence in the age of Trump.
There's a long primary season ahead of us, but Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan may have been the last Koch-approved nominees.
A collapse in popular support is only one of Team Walker's problems. His campaign is also behind on its bills and campaign manager Rick Wiley is facing a negative whisper campaign from Walker's donors.