Polling

The Dispatch has a poll of Ohio's primary voters today, and it looks like it's going to be Ted Strickland and Ken Blackwell facing off the in the state's Gubernatorial race. Strickland has an enormous lead over gubernatorial nopeful (not a typo) Bryan Flannery who released a very negative press release last week. Ken Blackwell hold an eleven point advantage over Jim Petro.

If Blackwell hangs on to win the primary, and I think he will, Strickland will have an enormous opportunity to raise out of state money through the internet and various fundraising e-mail lists, possibly as much as $10 million.

As for the downticket statewides, nobody seems to know who anybody is outside of Betty Montgomery with undecideds running from the high sixties to the low seventies.

Both Sherrod Brown and Mike DeWine look to sail through their respective Senate primaries with opponents all polling in the single digits. The Washington Post has a pretty good rundown on this race here.