Bad news for Democrats looking for some wiggle-room in the race for control of the U.S. Senate and over redistricting of the U.S. House:
Ohio Republican Rob Portman holds a narrow lead (43 to 36 percent) over Democrat Lee Fisher in a Senate race marked by voter worries about a stumbling economy and high unemployment, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday…
Read More
Ohio’s Democratic Senate candidate, Lee Fisher, sat down with Joe Hallett for a piece in the Columbus Dispatch:
While sipping coffee last week, Lee Fisher was asked about his reputation as a demanding micromanager who already had lost top members of his Democratic Senate campaign team.
Read More
Public Policy Polling, a Democratic firm with a decent track record this year, has raised the question of whether an endorsement by President Obama will help or hurt Democratic candidates in a number of states.
The answer: ouch.
Read More
The NBC/Wall Street Journal poll this week shows Barack Obama with a negative 45%-48% job rating. But as the Wall Street Journal story notes, Obama’s job rating among black voters is 91% positive.
Read More
Even as Rasmussen’s latest poll has Ohio’s open-seat Senate race in a 43-43 tie, Republican John Kasich has jumped out to a five-point lead over incumbent Gov.
Read More
Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, the Democratic nominee for Senate, has been absent for President Obama’s last two public visits to his state. His absence from Obama’s Youngstown appearance last Monday was particularly noteworthy because Obama spent some time criticizing Fisher’s Republican opponent, former Rep. Rob Portman.
Read More
URL: http://www.sfexaminer.com/taxonomy/term/4279?page=2&quicktabs_1=0
