Ohio: Dispatch poll - Bush 51%, Kerry 44%

Columbus Dispatch ^ | 10/03/2004 | Darrel Rowland

[Bosco]

Renowned as a strong closer, John Kerry will need a stellar performance in the presidential campaign’s final month if he is going to win Ohio.

President Bush has opened a 7-point lead, 51 percent to 44 percent, in a new Dispatch Poll, conducted almost entirely before Thursday night’s debate in Florida.

[Bosco]

Woo hoo. We need to finish up with a strong close on election day at the polls.

[Max Combined]

Great news.

I want to see polls showing President Bush ahead in Ohio, PA, Wisconsin, Florida, and Minnesota.

[Condor51]

So much for Lurch winning the debate - which he didn't.

[Drango]

conducted almost entirely before Thursday night’s debate in Florida.

Well it's good news, even if it's a little old...

[Pitiricus]

The poll was from before the debate...

[irish guard]

ping

[shield]

BIG CHEATING BY THE RATS IS NOW TAKING PLACE IN OHIO!!!

[tomnbeverly]

You see all you need to do is take the Global Test... Once you take that test you can plainly see who should be President. Didn't our founding fathers write the Constitution for the United States so that we wouldn't have to submit to Global Tests... hmmmm

[Condor51]

Ok, then WHY even post it?!?

Waste of Bandwidth

[Drango]

Word

[slimer]

This race is not as close as it is being portrayed to be.

[Bosco]

I posted it because although it was taken prior to the debate, it is front page news in Columbus TODAY.

[rushmom]

Not so old. ALMOST all before the debate. Can't believe the debate will make that much differenc. Fraud is another story.

[DrDeb]

The poll included Thursday and Friday (the same days included in Newsweek's bogus poll)!

NOTE: I spent most of yesterday joining dozens of other volunteers in making hundreds of calls for the OHIO RNC and can definitively state that NO ONE we spoke with had changed their vote based on Thursday's debate.

Republicans are still STRONGLY supporting President Bush and the Undecideds claim they will wait until the last week of the campaign before making a final decision (35% of the TINY number of 'undecideds' are leaning toward President Bush, 35% toward Kerry and 30% are just plain clueless)!

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Didn't our founding fathers write the Constitution for the United States so that we wouldn't have to submit to Global Tests... hmmmm

Brilliant!!

[Darkwolf377]

Ok, then WHY even post it?!? Waste of Bandwidth"

Only if you think Kerry's performance was so amazingly, historically steallar that he wiped out an eleven point lead in Ohio. Otherwise it's an important trend-indicator.

I don't see anyone dancing in the streets about Kerry surging. No one, even most dems, are aware of the stacked Newsweek poll.

Kerry won the debate, but that's like saying he had a single good rally. This election wasn't hinging on that or any debate. Not this year--the stakes are too high.

[plushaye]

Great news and still worth posting. Thanks. I don't believe the debate changed many minds at all, so this result will hold. Ohio is staying in the Bush fold this year, Thank God. We have to make sure Florida stays too, and I believe it will.

[Arpege92]

"NOTE: I spent most of yesterday joining dozens of other volunteers in making hundreds of calls for the OHIO RNC..."

A HUGE THANK YOU for your time and effort! :-}

[jammer]

Conducted before the "debate?" Sorry, this is at best out of date in a rapidly changing dynamic and is probably meaningless.

[TonyInOhio]

Great news and still worth posting. Thanks. I don't believe the debate changed many minds at all, so this result will hold. Ohio is staying in the Bush fold this year, Thank God. We have to make sure Florida stays too, and I believe it will.

In practical terms, Kerry must have Ohio or Florida to win. If we hold both, the President wins re-election.