New Ohio Poll: Governors race tight--Senate race not so much

[book_worm]

With early voting set to begin Tuesday, a Cincinnati Enquirer/Ohio Newspaper Poll of likely voters shows that while the U.S. Senate race appears to be a runaway win for Republicans, the governor's race is a close one.

Kasich holds a four percentage point lead over Democratic incumbent Ted Strickland, according to the poll of 582 likely Ohio voters conducted last week by the University of Cincinnati's Institute for Policy Research.

The poll had 49 percent saying they would vote for Kasich, while 45 percent said they would support the Democratic incumbent.

The numbers on the race to replace retiring Republican George Voinovich in the U.S. Senate, on the other hand, were in line with a number of other polls conducted in recent months, with the Republican - former Cincinnati congressman and Bush administration official Rob Portman - holding a 15 percentage point lead over the Democrat Lee Fisher, the state's lieutenant governor.

Portman's lead in southwest Ohio, his home base, is astronomical - he has 66 percent support to Fisher's 28 percent.

But in Fisher's backyard - northeast Ohio - the race is nearly a dead heat - 47 percent Fisher, 49 percent Portman.

"All this shows that Lee Fisher has a very steep hill to climb if he is to get back into this race,'' said Eric Rademacher, co-director of the Institute for Policy Research.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100925/NEWS0108/9260310/Poll-Ohio-governor-race-tight-Senate-race-not

[Dawson Leery]

1. Strickland has a 50/50 chance of re-election.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Damn.

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[Dawson Leery]

4. Strickland is not out of this race.

Fisher is most likely out though. He has been trailing the entire time.

[Deep13]

5. Truth be told, he was never in.

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[Mojambo]

3. Gonna end up losing both of those. n/t

[OHdem10]

6. Where is Lee Fisher. I only see Portman Ads.

Portman was Trade Representative for GWB.