Good News for Ohioans

With only 25 days to go until election day, Ohio got some good news from polls yesterday.

Survey USA
for Governor
Strickland(D): 60%
Blackwell(R): 32%

A reminder, though. The last two polls on the race were much closer, showing a double digit lead for Strickland in the low teens. However, the University of Akron poll was junk(had Stickland up by about 13.5%). The poll was concluded on September 29th, and could hardly be called anything other than outdated. Not to mention the fact that the polling info was conducted over a period of a month. That is an extremely poor way to poll a volatile election in the home stretch.

Survey USA
for Senator
Brown(D): 54%
Dewine(R): 40%

The last usable poll(again, not including the University of Akron "poll"), was a Rasmussen poll that had Brown up by 8. So, as has been through most of this race, Brown is in control. However, the RNC has been backing up truckloads of money to keep Dewine afloat. So, we'll have to hold our breath until Novembr 7th on this one. I still consider this a tight race.

RT Strategies
for Congressional District OH-02
Wulsin(D): 48%
Schmidt(R): 45%

This is a heavily conservative district. It would be a miracle if Schmidt loses. But times are tough for Republicans, and she is not a very likeable person. Remember she had become infamous for calling veteran John Murtha a coward on the floor of the House. By the way, Murtha will be campaigning with her opponent very soon.

RT Strategies
for Congressional District OH-15
Kilroy(D): 53%
Pryce(R): 41%

These numbers are a surprise to me. I have been seeing some of these campaign ads, and I assumed that the race was much closer. For the moment I think it is best to assume that all of these races are still competitive.

RT Strategies
for Congressional District OH-02
Space(D): 51%
Padgett(R): 42%

I am familiar with this race. I have friends and family that live in this district, all of whom will be voting for Zack Space. The republicans could still win this conservative district with a great turnout, but they made a mistake in allowing Ney, who will be pleading guilty to two felonies today, to pick Padgett as his successor. They should have had him keep his mouth shut. Not to mention that Padgett has had some family financial problems with a multi-million dollar bankruptcy recently.

Overall, good news. Still, though, the Republicans, as always, have loads of cash and will attack with their tradtional gleeful viciousness. So, be on the look out for the normal, "raise your taxes", "terra, terra, terra" ads. There is going to be 25 more days of them.