Whoa, the latest poll out from Rasmussen Reports shows Gubernatorial candidate Ted Strickland with a double digit lead over both Ken Blackwell (50-40) and Jim Petro (47-34).
While some of this can be attributed to the highly negative republican primary, that's a pretty substantial lead that should help down ticket races across the board, because if the governor's race is seen as unwinnable, it will be harder to get their voters to the polls in November.
That would in particular hurt Mike DeWine. The Christian right that will show up no matter what, but they hate DeWine. If the soft supporters of the republican party don't show up to support him, he's toast. DeWine currently has a three point lead over Sherrod Brown (45-42) according to Rasmussen.
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Could not disagree more. These numbers are lot closer than they should be. The R’s have not yet focused on Strickland. These are very encouraging numbers for R’s. With all the scandals, war, lies, the economy, etc and they are only down ten and haven’t even started running against Ted yet. Dukakis was up 15 in August of 88. Hell, even Hagen was close this time four years ago.
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