Ohioans Turning Against Democrats in latest poll

Friday, 13 November 2009 10:32

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The Columbus Dispatch

The state that swept Democrats into virtually all statewide offices in 2006 and helped Barack Obama clinch the White House last year suddenly is taking on a reddish tinge.

For the first time in the Quinnipiac Poll, Ohioans have a negative appraisal of the Democratic president's job performance: 50 percent disapprove, 45 percent approve. Only two months ago he was winning approval by 9 percentage points in the Connecticut university's survey.

Yesterday's results came a day after the same poll showed Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland's numbers sliding across the board in the state, and put him in a dead heat with GOP challenger John Kasich for next year's gubernatorial race.

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