both TonyRo76 and LasVegasDave.
Posted on 08/11/2010 11:24:04 AM PDT by zebrahead
Ohio Republican Rob Portman holds a narrow lead over Democrat Lee Fisher in a Senate race marked by voter worries about a stumbling economy and high unemployment, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday.
Portman, director of the Office of Budget and Management and the U.S. Trade Representative under former President George W. Bush, leads Fisher 43 percent to 36 percent among likely voters less than three months before the November 2 election for the open Senate seat.
In the race for governor, Republican challenger John Kasich leads incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland by 48 percent to 39 percent among likely voters in Ohio, a critical battleground state that often reflects national voting trends.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
More work to be done here, but things are looking positive. Rob will win.
Since when is seven points a narrow lead? Obama beat McCain by seven points and the media considered Obama’s victory a landslide.
When a GOP candidate leads, the magnitude of said lead is by definition narrow.
--LSM Style book, page 204.
[Ohio Republican Rob Portman holds a narrow lead over Democrat Lee Fisher]
Since when is 7 freakin’ points a narrow lead? If Fisher was winning, Rooters would call it a solid lead. Not looking good for Rats in OH and that is the best news
I’ve heard yet today!
With Ohio predicted to lose TWO House seats in the upcoming redistricting, the governor is really important..what do the Stae House races look like?
First of all, the Jennifer Brunner thing. She had the whole Obama machine behind her, and she lost pretty strongly to someone whose TV ads were about jobs. Her loss tells me that Obama couldn't get his minority and young supporters to get out and vote for someone who should've won. I think Obama's REALLY unpopular in OH right now.
Secondly, both races....the US Senate and the Governor belong to the 'pubs. Only they can mess it up. They have to remember that OH residents want jobs, don't really like city problems stretching outward, are fed up with the invasion taking jobs and destroying neighborhoods and communities. They still have to be educated about how Obama nazi health care is about the feds taking over their bodies.
It seems most OH residents are pretty conservative. And they're ready to turn over that Senate seat and the Gov's office to two good-sounding 'pubs.
Exactly!
7 points is a nail biter when the Republican is leading. Yet when Dingy Harry leads Sharron Angle by 1 point, well, the fat lady has sung!
GOP looking strong to pickup gov wins in battle states of Oh, Fl, and Pa. This portends well for 12 prez race to halt acorn tactics.
Yes
Man...if these two good people can’t win in depressed Ohio, then there is no hope.
Otherwise known as a HUGE LEAD.
Ohio ping, sir!
It is a narrow lead since it’s maybe two percent beyond the “margin of ACORN and the Panthers”.
They’re both beyond the margin of error which makes it significant. Kasich is 5 points beyond it and Portman is 3. In other words, for any other than Reuters it would read: Portman and Kasich lead in Ohio.
I still have one problem with Kasich that I wish he’d fix. I think it would help him. But...whatever...I’m not his campaign manager.
Portman has a big financial edge at the moment. I see at least one Portman ad every day and I have yet to see any ads from Fisher.
Dems lead the statehouse by 4 seats. 2 of which they have no business holding. After that there are probably atleast a half dozen potential pickups but I wouldn't call them gimmes.
When the Dems can manufacture 5-7% vote fraud, then a 7% lead is narrow indeed.
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