How is Pierce looking in the Primaries?
The honest answer is that we don't know, because no polls have been taken by anyone since late March, and the one that the columbus dispatch did then used the same methods that were 28 points wrong (i.e., a 56-point swing) last November on the Reform Ohio Now initiatives.
Bill is doing a lot of under the radar things and has near-universal support of the Ohio conservative blogs. Don't forget that Blackwell will bring out a lot of conservatives who might have otherwise skipped the primary if there wasn't a competitive gubernatorial race.
Pierce will be looking better if you vote for him and spread the word. :-->
I would say at least 10 percent of the Republican primary voters have heard of Pierce. He is no threat at all to DeWine's winning the Republican nomination.
DeWine is trying to move left in order to win the fall election. Ohio looks more and more like a Democratic sweep in November. Democrat Ted Strickland is a sure winner for Governor. The Democrats will pick up other state offices.
DeWine is trying to distance himself from Republicans so he has a chance in November of bucking a very Strong Democratic tide. The DeWine polling shows that if DeWine hopes to win the General Election he has to move to the left. That is what he is doing.
The DeWine Strategy is to take his half out of the middle. That is what Voinovich showed could be done in 2004. In 2004 RINO Voinovich got 63 percent of the votes while a more conservative George Bush got 51 percent.
DeWine figures if he loses 15 percent off the far right but gains 15 percent to the left of center he can't lose. That would leave the Democrat with a maximum of 35 percent and Dewine with 50 percent and the remaining 15 percent made up of right wing Republicans sitting on their hands.