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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
New poll: Ohioans want a Democrat in the White House
Nearly two-thirds of Ohio adults want to see a Democrat take control of the White House in the November election, according to a new poll released Wednesday, March 12.
“It reveals the dimension of the Republican challenge in Ohio and the dimension of the Democratic opportunity in Ohio,” said John Green, director of the Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron which released the poll.
A key finding: 59.5 percent of the political independents wanted a Democrat to take over.
Overall, 64.1 percent favored a Democrat, while 95.9 percent of the Democrats and 14.2 percent of the Republicans wanted to see a Democrat take over.
On a related question, 69.1 percent said that regardless of how they planned to vote they thought a Democrat would carry Ohio in November. More than half of the Republicans - 55.8 percent - thought a Democrat would win, while 61.9 percent of the independents and 83.3 percent of the Democrats thought there would be a Democratic victory.
Nearly half of those surveyed - 47.5 percent - said economic issues would be most important in determining their vote for president, nearly double the 24.8 percent who said foreign policy issues such as the war in Iraq would be most important, the poll found.
The poll was the first of three to be conducted before the November election, said Green. The poll was conducted from Jan. 10-March 10 with a statewide sample of 1,507 of Ohio adults, with over samples of those residing outside northeastern Ohio. The overall margin of error was plus or minus 2.5 percentage points. The poll was conducted by the Center for Marketing & Opinion Research, LLC of Canton, Oh.
The complete poll is available at:
http://www.uakron.edu/bliss/research.php
