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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
Comments
By Savanation
March 13, 2008 8:24 AM | Link to this
Hey Bob, you had a republican in the White House. Now we have to disinfect the White House so Americans can safely go back into it. Why will anyone vote for Clinton or Obama? Because we need intelligent leadership, people who care for all Americans, a leader who will bring America back to it’s position of leadership in the world, a person who thinks instead of blustering, a true patriot not a bought and paid for hack. Silly people like you who think Bush is the greatest president ever are the people who are trying to ruin America. Well, we are not going to let you do it anymore.By bob
March 13, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this
I want a republican in the white house . John Mccain. President Bush is one of the best presidents ever. It is beyond me why anyone would vote for the two pro abortion democratics. The termination of unborn babies the democratic party way.By Tom O'Neal
March 13, 2008 6:36 AM | Link to this
Your poll is way off. The present occupier of the white house is just a line of criminals that occupy the higher offices in government. The citizens of Ohio want a person in high office that has high ethical and moral standards. We need a person or people that can read the Constitution and do what is right for America not the New World order kind of bunk we have had for 50 years. The Congress is a joke they would rather look into a pitcher that may have taken steroids than solve our own energy crisis. The question is not why we have to buy oil from the Arab countries but why we do not use our own resources and let the Chinese have all that they can buy from Saudis.By mwm
March 12, 2008 8:22 PM | Link to this
Go figure! With a habitual liar in the White House, and a bunch of current and former members of the Bush administration on the take, or, with conflict of interest contracts; Haliburton, Bechtel and now Ashcroft. Money for the rich and nothing for the middle class and poor. Republicans that oppose health care for those that need it. Republicans that denied the existence of global warming. Republican tax cuts for the rich. Republicans that favor waterboarding and torture. A Republican candidate that sees nothing wrong with 100 year occupation of Iraq or the invasion of Iran. Nixon was a saint compared to the criminals now occupying high office and affiliated with the Republican party.