Sen. Sherrod Brown, who also faces re-election in 2012, is in better shape with Ohio registered voters, who prefer Brown over an unnamed GOP challenger 45 - 29 percent. Voters also say 45 - 30 percent that he deserves a second term in the U.S. Senate.
Obama will lose Ohio, NC, Virginia, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada and possibly Michigan and Wisconsin as well.
He’s in huge electoral trouble. Under essentially any plausible scenario, he needs two of the three to gain 270 electoral votes: Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania. This is why the White House went for broke in the gubernatorial races in Ohio and Florida last year. Happily, they lost both.