OH: ONLY 30% Of Dem Respondents Believe 04 Count Was Fair/Accurate (NYT)

[kpete]

Alarm Bells for G.O.P. in Poll Results in Ohio

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Many Democrats in Ohio still harbor resentment about the 2004 presidential contest between Mr. Bush and Senator John Kerry, which Mr. Bush officially won by about 120,000 votes out of 5.6 million cast in Ohio. Only 30 percent of Democratic poll respondents said they believed the 2004 vote count was fair and accurate, while 64 percent said it was not. (Many conspiracy-minded Democratic activists accused Mr. Blackwell, who serves as statewide supervisor of elections, of manipulating voting technology to help Mr. Bush win.) Republicans, by 89 percent to 8 percent, said the voting was fair and balanced.


more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/18/us/politics/18poll.html?ei=5094&en=4d5ba620e9153e44&hp=&ex=1161230400&partner=homepage&pagewanted=all

[mod mom]

1. Here's more:

The poll found a striking slippage in the president’s standing among white evangelical Christians, a constituency that has provided a strong vote cushion for Republican candidates in recent elections. In November 2004, 76 percent of white evangelical Christians in Ohio voted for Mr. Bush. When asked in this poll whether they approve or disapprove of the job Mr. Bush is doing as president, 49 percent approved while 45 percent disapproved.

-snip

Only a third of Ohio voters approve of the job Mr. Bush is doing as president or the way he is handling the economy, and they seem poised to take it out on Republican candidates up and down the ballot. Republican officials at the national level said this week they had all but written off the Ohio Senate and governor’s races and were diverting resources to other states where they believed they had a better chance of winning.

-snip

More than half of the poll’s respondents said they believed corruption was widespread in Ohio and said, by a 3-to-1 margin, that the Republican Party had more corrupt politicians than the Democrats. Gov. Bob Taft, a Republican, pleaded no contest last year to ethics charges arising from dealings with a crooked investment manager. Representative Bob Ney, an Ohio Republican, pleaded guilty to corruption charges last week arising from his association with Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist at the center of an influence-selling scandal in Washington.

-snip

The tide of dissatisfaction appears ready to wash out Mr. DeWine, who is trailing Mr. Brown by 34 percent to 48 percent, the poll found. The Democratic candidate for governor, Representative Ted Strickland, is leading the Republican nominee, J. Kenneth Blackwell, the Ohio secretary of state, by 53 percent to 29 percent.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/us/politics/17cnd-poll.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1161144000&en=0533f5264d9c5b5f&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin

[rodeodance]

2. Bring it on OHIO DEMS----get to the polls! bring a buddy with you!

[saltpoint]

3. I like Sherrod Brown just fine & hope he wins big, but DeWine's

weak showing so far might also be attributed to his lackluster self.

There's very little of distinguished virtue in Mike DeWine.

If he's not in the Senate next time, I don't think a soul would notice. He's one of the most nondescript political entities I've ever seen.

Blackwell's done for. Bush-Cheney cheated and Blackwell pulled the levers. A lot of Ohio voters have not forgotten 2004, and many of those voters will NOT be supporting the GOP in 3 weeks.

[zbdent]

4. DeWine points to "working" with the other party as a virtue

if you count making sure that you disarm the last bullet left in a pistol (the "Gang of 14" on the filibuster) as "working with the other party" ...

[wisteria]

5. Yeah, as fair and balanced as Fox News. n/t

[rzemanfl]

9. I found the use of "fair and balanced" as opposed to 'fair and

accurate" interesting. Deliberate or a freudian slip?

[farmbo]

6. Hey NYT...if 70% believe it happened, its no longer a "conspiracy theory"

This should be referred to as a probable crime which, as yet, remains un-investigated.

[ginnyinWI]

8. and if 70% believed Kerry probably won...

I see no reason why he shouldn't run another time. Even the other 30% could probably be persuaded to vote for him another time. ;)

[Kurovski]

7. K&R!(nt)

[Imagevision]

10. Apparently Ohioans haven't learned anything from 2004 election?

[autorank]

11. I like it a lot!!! KR

Be nice if they reported on this Zogby Poll of 1018 Likely voters...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00346.htm

[kpete]

12. thanks

for the triple !!!

media is cathing up to you...