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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Rasmussen Reports: Ohio U.S. Senate race “toss-up”
Rasmussen Reports has shifted Ohio’s U.S. Senate race from “lean Republican” to “toss-up”, the polling company announced on Wednesday, Aug. 4.
The shift came after a new Rasmussen Reports poll showed Republican Rob Portman leading Democrat Lee Fisher 44-40 percent among likely voters.
Last month Portman, a former Cincinnati-area U.S. House member and budget director and U.S. trade representative for President George W. Bush, led Fisher, the lieutenant governor, 45-39 percent.
Generally, Rasmussen Reports rates a race a toss-up if the spread is within 5 points during the summer.
The new poll was taken on Monday, Aug. 2, with 750 likely voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Portman continues to have lots more campaign cash on hand than Fisher - about $8.8 million to $1.3 million -, according to campaign finance reports.
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Tweet“Heartache” video bemoans death of redistricting reform
The clock runs out today, Aug. 4, on efforts to put a legislative redistricting reform on the Nov. 2 ballot and Ohio Citizen Action, one of the groups backing reform, already is in mourning.
The group released a video, “It’s a Heartache”, with soundtrack from Bonnie Tyler, to moan about the empty Statehouse and the legislature’s unwillingness to give voters the chance on the Nov. 2 ballot to undue decades of gerrymandering. Here’s the video:
Don’t give up, Catherine Turcer, director of Ohio Citizen Action’s Money in Politics Project, said in an e-mail:
“Despite this significant loss, Ohioans can take a role by participating in public hearings and following the line-drawing process during 2011.”
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TweetMeeting on new Ohio statute set for Aug. 26
Thomas Edison, the Wright brothers or somebody else?
That’s the question a legislative committee will grapple with when it meets Aug. 26 at the Statehouse to recommend who should represent Ohio in a new statue in Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C.
Announcement of the committee meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 3, follows release of the final results of the popular vote for the new statue. Edison finished first with 14,833 votes, 1,018 more than the 13,815 cast for Orville and Wilbur Wright, who finished second.
Former U.S. Rep. William M. McCulloch, a Piqua Republican who championed civil rights, finished fourth with 3,851 votes. In third place was Jesse Owens, the Olympic gold medal winner, who had 5,032 votes.
State Sen. Mark Wagoner, R-Ottawa Hills, the committee chairman, has said the committee will give the public vote great weight when making its recommendation.
The new statute will replace former Gov. William Allen, whose pro-slavery and anti-Abraham Lincoln views now are seen as an embarrassment to the state.
Ohio’s other statue - of President James Garfield - will remain in Statuary Hall.
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TweetRoger’s RV hits the road
The governor’s brother, Roger Strickland, is hitting the campaign trail in the Sportsmen for Strickland RV on Wednesday, Aug. 4, with stops in Springfield, Eaton and Hamilton.
The RV is scheduled to be at the Clark County Democratic Party Headquarters at noon, at the Preble County Fairgrounds at 3 p.m., and the Butler County Democratic Headquarters at 5 p.m.
Roger, who campaigned for Strickland in 2006, is one of Gov. Ted Strickland’s eight siblings.
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