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Thursday, January 14, 2010
Kasich leading Gov. Strickland in latest poll
Republican challenger John Kasich is still leading incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland in the latest Rasmussen Reports poll on Ohio’s governor race.
The new poll, released on Thursday, Jan. 14, is telephone survey of likely voters in the state shows Kasich with a seven-point lead, 47 percent to 40 percent. Four percent like some other candidate, and eight percent (8%) are undecided.
Kasich led Strickland 48 percent to 39 percent in early December.
Male voters prefer Kasich by 19 points over Strickland. Women favor the incumbent by four.
On Thursday, Kasich announced that state Auditor Mary Taylor would be his running mate.
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Republican governor candidate John Kasich named Ohio Auditor Mary Taylor as his choice for lieutenant governor at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 14.
Kasich made the announcement on Twitter. He will make a formal announcement at a 3 p.m. press conference in Columbus.
Taylor would give Kasich, a former U.S. House member from suburban Columbus, a connection to vote-rich northeastern Ohio. Taylor is from Green, an Akron suburb.
While no date has been set, Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland also told his followers on Twitter to be watching for a lieutenant governor announcement. Current Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio.
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Republican Rob Portman leads Democrats Jennifer Brunner and Lee Fisher in a new poll for Ohio’s 2010 U.S. Senate race.
In the Rasmussen Reports poll, released on Thursday, Jan. 14, the matchup with Brunner, the secretary of state was close, a virtual tossup, with Portman leading, 43-40 percent, a lead within the poll’s margin of error.
Portman leads Fisher, the lieutenant governor, 44-37 percent, with the rest undecided or for another candidate.
Portman is a former Cincinnati-area U.S. House member who served as budget director and U.S. trade representative under President George W. Bush.
The poll was taken Tuesday, Jan. 12, with 500 likely voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
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