Guess which gubernatorial candidate's support is soft?
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.
What I want to know is
Some cross-over is expected
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.





The "Taxin' Ted" thing