Adults age 18 or older who were currently registered to vote in Wisconsin or planned to register.
Some have argued that the bill was fiscally irresponsible for spending a projected surplus now that might lead to a deficit in future budgets. Would it be better to delay providing special education funding, property tax reductions, and rebate checks until next year, or would it be better to provide them now, even if it might affect the budget next year?
- Better to delay special education funding, property tax reductions, and rebate checks until next year
- 27%
- Better to provide special education funding, property tax reductions, and rebate checks now
- 49%
- Don't know
- 23%
Source and fieldwork
Marquette Law School Poll registered-voter toplines, July 8-16, 2026. Marquette University Law School; sponsored by Marquette Law School. 838 respondents, fielded July 8, 2026 through July 16, 2026. Evidence is current.
Method boundary
Directions apply only to the exact baseline proposition and do not establish a candidate position.
Reported margin of error is plus or minus 4.5 percentage points; sampling error is only one potential source of error.
Sampling, weighting, and limitations
Sampling: Full-probability hybrid Wisconsin registration-based sample and probability-based SSRS Opinion Panel, administered by web and live-interviewer telephone in English.
Weighting: Design weighting, source-specific nonresponse adjustment, compositing, and calibration to Wisconsin registered-voter demographic, 2020 presidential-result, and partisanship benchmarks.
- Published percentages are rounded to whole numbers.
- The survey was administered in English only by web and live-interviewer telephone.
- Question wording, nonresponse, mode, order, measurement, and other unmeasured errors may affect the result.
- This opinion item does not establish factual impacts, implementation authority, or a candidate position.
- The statewide registered-voter result remains separate from affected-community evidence and member results.