Five takeaways from the poll.

MADISON – In the race to occupy the Wisconsin governor’s office come January, Gov. Scott Walker and his Democratic challenger state schools Superintendent Tony Evers are tied.

The candidates have about an equal percentage of devoted supporters, according to the first survey from the Marquette University Law School since the Aug. 14 primary election, giving little clue now to how the race will shake out.

In the U.S. Senate race, GOP state Sen. Leah Vukmir is trailing incumbent Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat from Madison. But Vukmir is closing the gap when compared with previous polling, also providing a murky view of what’s to come.

Here are 5 takeaways from Wednesday’s poll results:

1. Wisconsin is ready for weed

The new poll showed Wisconsin voters overwhelmingly support legalizing marijuana if it is regulated like alcohol.

Sixty-one percent told pollsters marijuana should be fully legalized and regulated, while 36 percent oppos the legalization. Support and opposition to the idea has grown and lessened by equal measure since 2016.

2. No cakewalk for Tammy Baldwin

Baldwin won her first term in the U.S. Senate by defeating former Gov. Tommy Thompson by about 6 percentage points.

Wednesday’s polling shows her bid for a second term likely won’t be a cakewalk.

Among likely voters, 49 percent support Baldwin while 47 percent support Vukmir. Just 3 percent don’t have a preference.

3. Schools will matter in November

Wednesday’s poll showed most voters think their schools are the same or worse off than they were a few years ago.

Forty-four percent say their schools are in worse shape now, while 34 percent say they’re about the same. Just 15 percent said the schools are in better shape.

In the new poll, 61 percent said more spending on schools is preferred. In 2013, 46 percent said they’d rather have more spending than lower property taxes.

In that time, the percentage of people who would rather cut property taxes fell from 49 percent to 32 percent.

4. Most don’t know much about an issue that has dogged Walker

The state’s only youth prison has been under investigation for alleged inmate abuse for three years, but nearly half of voters polled in Wednesday’s results said they don’t know enough about the allegations to know whether Walker should pay more attention to them.

Forty-nine percent of voters said they hadn’t heard enough, while 35 percent said Walker has not paid enough attention to the “issues of prisoner abuse” at the Lincoln Hills School for Boys and Copper Lake School for Girls in Irma.

Twelve percent say Walker has done all he should to address the allegations.

5. Give judges more discretion

Voters overwhelmingly said they would favor allowing judges to decide what kind of sentences nonviolent offenders should receive.

Seventy-three percent said they would support eliminating the mandatory sentences, while 19 percent said they opposed the idea.