Posted on 07/25/2006 6:17:23 AM PDT by RockinRight
COLUMBUS – The Wall Street Journal Zogby Interactive Poll today indicated Republican gubernatorial nominee Ken Blackwell is in a close race with Congressman and former prison psychologist Ted Strickland. Blackwell trails Strickland by 4.6 points with a 3.2 percent margin of error. The survey mirrors a June 22 Zogby poll showing Blackwell trailing Strickland by only five points and a May 25 University of Cincinnati Ohio Poll showing Blackwell trailing Strickland by six points.
The surveys contrast a Columbus Dispatch poll released Sunday showing Blackwell trailing Strickland by 20 points. The inconsistency in the four polls could be explained by what the Dispatch calls “a somewhat higher than normal percentage of Democrats” responding to its own survey.
“When voters begin to focus on the election and learn more about both candidates, Ken Blackwell’s bold job-creating economic agenda will win the day,” said Blackwell campaign chair Lara Mastin. “Ted Strickland is an extreme social and economic liberal who does not share Ohioans’ values. He is a pro-tax, big government liberal who is wrong for Ohio.”
“Strickland’s economic policies will further increase taxes and cost Ohio more jobs,” added Mastin. “Strickland lacks the courage and insight to move Ohio forward and voters will reject his stale ideas.”
Blackwell has advocated the following job creating initiatives:
* Create a $6 billion jobs creation and infrastructure improvement fund by leasing the Ohio Turnpike; * Implement a single rate tax system over a four year period, with a target rate of 3.25 percent; * Eliminate the stand alone estate tax and increase the definition of residency for tax purposes from the current 120 days to 180 days or more; * Repeal the sales tax increase of 2003, returning the state sales tax to 5 percent; and * Privatize the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation.
“Ken Blackwell’s agenda of tax cuts, job creation and market-centered solutions is what Ohio needs to get back on track,” concluded Mastin.
Things look better for Blackwell here than they did on a Columbus Pisspatch...er...Dispatch poll just a coupld days ago!
Wow...I can't spell today!
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I love it zogby polls are unscientific biased etc. Util one goes our way.
Damn right!!!! Go, Ken, Go!!!!!
How about increasing the PROOF of residency for absentee voting, provisional balloting, and Photo ID for voters, to eliminate the rampant Democrat voting fraud in Ohio (and every other Liberal inner-city mecca in the U.S.)?
Ziggy Zogby Ziggy Zogby Oy Oy Oy ! Ziggy Zogby Ziggy Zogby Oy Oy Oy !
Zogby did his usual thing. At the end when he realizes his fake polls didn't do the job, he'll jump on Blackwell's bandwagon.
Still, it's going to be an uphill fight for Blackwell. There is a strong negative overhang from the Taft scandals and 16 years of one-party rule in the state. There is a lot of stuff out there that Blackwell has nothing to do with but will still get blamed for because he is with the party in power.
People seem to get that herd mentality going and just blame whoever is in office for whatever bad is going on. I was talking with a lady from my parish the other day who was ranting about how bad Republicans were and Blackwell in particular, and it was the same day local gasoline prices cracked through the dreaded $3/gallon mark, and she was blaming Blackwell and the Republicans for that. I said, "You know Blackwell is Secretary of State, don't you?" She said, "Yes, so what?" I said, "You know what his job is then?" She said, "Well, no, not precisely." Me: "Basically he is in charge of elections in the state. He doesn't set gasoline prices." She: "Oh. Well, I still don't like him..." Totally clueless people, I'll tell you.
Don't believe the heavily Dem-biased polls which show Blackwell down by a jillion points either. The real preference, right now, is probably somewhere around 45-35-20 (Strickland-Blackwell-undecided), +/- a few points.
That's still not good news, but once the Petro-Taft (liberal pantywaist) portion of the Ohio Republican party gets back on board, things will tighten up. Unless, of course, those morons choose to fall for the lie that Teddy S. is some kind of "moderate", which he surely is not.
I saw a bumper sticker once that said "I'm stupid, and I vote."
Sums it up.
I think the 20% undecided you mention is correct. We have time to pull them over to Blackwell, and if his campaign is smart, they'll jump on it.
Zogby was the most accurate pollster in the Schmidt-McEwen race down here.
This Petro supporter and every other Petro supporter I know of is on board with Blackwell.
Things may be different up north.
I agree completely with post 10. North of the border, jenny granholm will probably get kicked out of office for the same reasoning.
He had an excellent interview on WTAM last Sunday.
Most of it was captured on this blog
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