Buckeye State Blog - Guess which gubernatorial candidate's support is soft? - Comments

The bottom line, whether

bobcody35 — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:50:08 -0700

The bottom line, whether people know or don't know Ted Strickland, They KNOW they DON'T WANT Ken Blackwell. Is it 2008 yet?

Some cross-over is expected

modernesquire — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:19:40 -0700

For whatever reason, every poll in every partisan race will show some cross-over vote from identified Democratic voters for a Republican candidate and vice versa. Strickland's Democratic base numbers is about where you'd want and can best expect a candidate to be.

The fact that Blackwell is the first African-American gubernatorial candidate does have some appeal to Democratic African-American voters.

What I want to know is

tjqhzonff — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:56:41 -0700

how the hell 6% of self described Democrats would vote for Krazy Kenny over Ted? Folks, I think youre in the wrong party.

The "Taxin' Ted" thing

AmberCat — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:46:36 -0700

These ads ARE making an impact

Guess which gubernatorial candidate's support is soft?

modernesquire — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:40:55 -0700

The conventional wisdom on the gubernatorial race both on the left and right is that with Blackwell's higher name identification, Strickland's support is soft as he is an unknown and with an effective Blackwell offensive "branding" Strickland's identity in voters' minds, Blackwell still has room to close the gap.