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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
CBSNews/NY Times poll: Ohioans angry at Washington
More than three in four Ohio residents say they are either dissatisfied or angry at Washington, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll released on Tuesday.
In the poll, just 18 percent say they are satisfied and only three percent are enthusiastic.
Ohioans seems to be angrier than that the rest of the country.
Twenty nine percent say they are angry at Washington, nine points higher than the 20 percent of Americans overall who said they were angry at Washington in a CBS News/New York Times poll taken earlier this month. Forty seven percent in Ohio say they are dissatisfied in the new poll.
The CBS News/New York Times poll on Ohio will be released in full at 6:30 p.m.
This poll was conducted among a random sample of 1,114 adults in Ohio, interviewed by telephone September 23-27, 2010, including 973 registered voters, according to a CBS News report.
Phone numbers were dialed from random digit dial samples of both standard land-line and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points, the report said.
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TweetUPDATED with new poll on Senate race: Fox News poll: Kasich leads Strickland, 45-43 percent
Republican challenger John Kasich edges Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland, 45-43 percent among likely voters in a Fox News poll released Tuesday.
With the poll’s 3 percentage points margin of error, the results show a virtual dead heat.
In the U.S. Senate race in the Fox News poll, Republican Rob Portman has a big lead over Democrat Lee Fisher, 50-37 percent.
Kasich led 47-41 percent in a Sept. 18 Fox News poll and 48-43 percent in a Sept. 11 poll by the news organization.
For more on the Fox News poll, click here.
The Fox News poll was taken Saturday, Sept. 25, with 1,000 likely voters.
In a separate poll on the Senate race from Rasmussen Reports, Portman leads 51-42 percent among likely voters, the first time Portman has crossed the 50 percent mark in the Rasmussen Reports poll.
The Rasmussen Reports poll was taken Monday with 500 likely voters and has a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points.
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TweetPresident Obama rally set for Oct. 17 in Columbus
President Barack Obama will be in Columbus on Oct. 17 for a political rally aimed at getting out the vote for Democrats in the mid-term elections, a Democratic party official said on Tuesday.
The Ohio rally is one of several the president is doing around the country, starting with an event today at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Details of the Columbus event will be released later. It will mark Obama’s 11th trip to Ohio since taking office.
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TweetAnarchy! Oh my!!!
There’s much ado these days about the “angry voter”, the person who is sick of it all and ready to throw the bums out.
Now you may not run into that person at the gym, or at your kid’s soccer game or while lounging at RiverScape watching some music.
But according to the candidates running for the 36th Ohio House seat the way to find angry voters is to knock on doors.
During an interview on Monday Republican Michael Henne, Democrat Carl D. Fisher Jr. and independent Cheryl Watson all said they’ve all gotten an earful from angry voters while out campaigning.
Some are a tad more radical than others - as Fisher found on his travels: “I had one couple say, ‘We want anarchy.’”
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TweetUPDATED with DeWine reaction -Ohio Tea Party PAC endorses Constitution Party’s Owens in AG race
The Ohio Tea Party PAC has endorsed Robert Owens, the Constitution Party candidate, for attorney general, Chris Littleton, president of the Ohio Liberty Council and the Cincinnati Tea Party announced on Tuesday.
Owens is the first statewide candidate endorsed by the PAC in the general election, a press release said.
An endorsement requires 7/8ths majority support from voting members. Owens is running against Democratic incumbent Attorney General Richard Cordray and Republican Mike DeWine, the former U.S. senator from Cedarville.
The Ohio Tea Party PAC represents more than 50 member groups of the Ohio Liberty Council, liberty minded grass roots organizations including Tea Party Groups, 9/12 Projects and many more, the release said.
Not all groups voted but Owens received about 89 percent support from those who did, said Littleton.
“In contrast to the history of this office, we fully expect Mr. Owens to prosecute corruption and avoid frivolous lawsuits. This is still an office that serves the people of Ohio, not a personal agenda,” Littleton said in the release.
Several other races around the state are being evaluated for endorsement with announcements being made over the next two weeks, the release said.
John Hall, spokesman for DeWine’s campaign, issued this reaction in an e-mail:
“We are pleased to have received the endorsement of a wide range of groups including the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, COAST, and Ohio Veterans United and look forward to working with tea party leaders in the future.”
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