Friday, October 8, 2010

Kasich lead shrinking?


By Lucas Sullivan   Sunday, September 26, 2010, 02:48 PM

DAYTON — Emboldened by a recent poll that found Republican challenger John Kasich’s lead was shrinking in the race for Ohio’s next governor, Gov. Ted Strickland said his opponent’s momentum has “peaked” and vowed Sunday “I have a lot of fight left in me.”
Strickland seemed re-energized just after noon as he spoke to crowd of about 100 people from the steps of his tour bus outside Montgomery County’s Democratic headquarters just after noon.
After months of trailing in numerous polls, in one as many as 17 points, Strickland is within four points of Kasich for the governor’s office, according to a Dayton Daily News/Ohio Newspaper poll.
“Our own polling shows we are down two points,” Strickland said. “My prediction is by this time next week we will have moved ahead (in the polls).”
Strickland and Maryellen O’Shaugnessy, candidate for Secretary of State, are in the middle of a four-day campaign bus tour across Ohio to urge volunteers to organize and get voters to the polls when early voting begins Tuesday.

This one poll also has WHIO-TV touting “polls” show Strickland is catching up. What say you?

1 comment:

Bob Rhoades said...

He probably is re-energized, a rise in the poll is the first positive thing that has happened to him since he was elected. The adds against him on TV accusing him of squandering fed money and allowing people in other countries to benefit from it while 100's of thousands of Buckeyes go without jobs didn't surprise me a bit. He has done the same thing with federal grant money when he laid off Ohio workers being paid by federal dollars. Wonder if he'll ever figure it out?