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Poll: Cordray holds lead in AG race; Strickland has high approval
Democrat Ohio Treasurer Richard Cordray holds a 44 to 26 percent lead over Republican Mike Crites in the race for Ohio Attorney General - but that’s with three-fourths of voters polled declaring they don’t know much about either candidate, according to a Quinnipiac University Poll released Wednesday, Aug. 22.
“Neither State Treasurer Richard Cordray nor former U.S. Attorney Mike Crites are well-known to Ohio voters at this point, although both are seen very positively by the minority who know them,” said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. “Cordray is ahead because he is slightly better known from being elected statewide previously and because being a Democrat is a plus this year.”
Nineteen percent of Ohioans viewed Cordray favorably, while 4 percent view him unfavorably, according to the poll.
Crites, meanwhile, is viewed favorably by 11 percent of Ohioans and unfavorably by 3 percent.
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, meanwhile, also enjoyed favorable ratings in the poll, with a 60 percent approval rating, up from 55 percent June 4. Twenty-five percent viewed him unfavorably in the poll released Wednesday.
The General Assembly, meanwhile, did not fare as well - they had a 42 to 41 percent approval rating.
Elsewhere, 69 percent of Ohio voters support a ballot proposal to require companies with 25 or more employees to offer seven paid sick days a year, with 27 percent not supporting that proposal.
The same voters who said 59 percent to 32 percent that Ohio’s economy has been hurt by too much government regulation do not apparently believe that about this proposal. Fifty-eight percent said they didn’t think passage of the proposal would encourage companies to leave Ohio.
The poll was taken from Aug. 5 through Aug. 11. It has a plus or minus 2.7 percentage point margin of error.
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