Good news from Ohio.
Understatement of the week. This is HUGE news!!!
I have been more than a little worried about W's chances in light of many recent polls. This one helps renew my hope.
If we hold Ohio and Florida, then everything else will fall in place and we will win. If we lose either, I don't see a victory.
"The poll, conducted May 20-25 by Mason-Dixon Polling and Research, is based on interviews with 1,500 registered voters who plan to vote in November. The poll, which has a margin of error of 2.6 percentage points, is the largest presidential poll taken in Ohio this year. "
I LIKE this result. It's the best poll result for Bush in weeks from a battleground state. It's also by Mason-Dixon, one of most reputed pollsters around. This will not make the Kerry camp happy at all. Hold that cheery thought.
Good news, indeed. I recently moved to southern Ohio (from the deep South), and our local rag (Dayton Daily News) is always anxious to potray President Bush as behind or in trouble in his efforts to carry Ohio. The last poll, as I recall, had Kerry up by 3-4 points, a sharp contrast to the Plain Dealer poll, which shows Bush leading beyond the margin of error. I'm sure the Daily News will bury that poll in one of the back sections. Of course, it goes without saying that a Republican has never won the White House in modern time without carrying Ohio, and conventional wisdom says that a GOP candidate must do well in southern Ohio, and suburban and rural areas across the state to win...this is good news; I only hope it holds.