I took a look at this earlier. The regional breakdown is interesting. They poll 40% from Cleveland region, and 60% from the rest of the state including no respondents from SE Ohio. This is obviously completely wrong, but two important numbers, Obama is losing 24 points in Cincinnati, 10 points in Toledo and breaking even in Columbus.
These are not winning numbers for a Democrat in OH.
NE Ohio has been bleeding population while Cincy/Columbus have been gaining.
I saw that, its ridiculous, they deliberately over sampled Bambi’s strong area.
40% from Cleveland? None from SE Ohio? Absurd. Almost as effective to just ask a dozen people in Akron and call it 100% Obama. This is why polls should be for the most part ignored.
(Although the breaking even in Columbus thing has me smiling.)
Southeast Ohio is solid McCain.
I’ve heard similar internals all over the nation. I am pleading to whatever deity that the market will not tank (already incredible it hasn’t today) and that Bambi’s speech gets yawned off. If we can accomplish these two things we will have an interesting night.
Population of Ohio: 11,478,006
Population of the City of Cleveland: 478,403
Population of the Greater Metro Cleveland Area: 2,250,871
Even if you take the greater Cleveland area number, Cleveland would still only make up 20% of the state.
These are bad numbers for Barry.