To Know Carpetbagger Eric Hovde Is To Dislike Him

Charles Franklin is the director of the Marquette Poll, Wisconsin's gold standard for political polls. Recently, he joined Maggie Daun on her radio talk show to discuss what the latest polls show about the carpetbanker with a pornstache, Eric Hovde.

MD: Is Eric Hovde self imploding as a candidate?

CF: Well, he slipped a little bit, but it is early in the campaign. The big thing is two months ago in April, 56 percent said they didn't know enough to have an opinion. Now that's down to 44 percent.