Quinnipiac begins last rites for the Lee Fisher for Senate campaign in Ohio. Republican Rob Portman remains far ahead of Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, 55 – 36 percent among likely voters, in Ohio’s U.S. Senate race according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today that shows the race unchanged from Portman’s 55 – 35 percent likely voter lead September 17. By a 44 – 33 percent margin, likely voters in Ohio want the Republicans to take control of the U.S. Senate after the November elections, the independent Quinnipiac University survey finds. Voters also want, 54 – 39 percent, their senator to oppose President Obama’s policies. Portman leads 93 – 3 percent among Republicans and 67 – 25 percent among independent voters, while Fisher carries Democrats 80 – 10 percent.
Legendary college football coach Lou Holtz offers a message on behalf of the NRCC: We are late into the fourth quarter of the midterm elections and the NRCC needs your immediate help to drive our Republican Party to Victory.
If you want to take a Fox News/Pulse Opinion Research poll with a grain of salt, you're free to make that choice. But they're not showing monolithically good news for Republicans. But where they do see good news, it's quite good: West Virginia A new Fox News battleground state poll on the race for the seat held by the late Sen.
MSNBC's Chuck Todd explains why the GOP's John Kasich is barely ahead in Ohio's governor's race, while the GOP's Rob Portman leads the Senate race easily: “[Ted] Strickland topping Kasich 2-1 in spots aired; while Portman has nearly a 6-1 advantage in spots aired last week over [Lee] Fisher.” That will do it. Republicans hope Kasich is ready to saturate the airwaves in the final month. Jim Geraghty
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BOOM : Republican Marco Rubio continues to hold a double-digit lead over independent candidate Charlie Crist in Florida’s contentious race for the U.S. Senate. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Florida finds Rubio with 41% support. Crist, the state’s current governor, earns 30% of the vote, with Democrat Kendrick Meek still running third with 23%. Two percent (2%) like another candidate, and four percent (4%) are undecided. BOOM : Republican Rob Portman now earns his highest level of support to date against Democrat Lee Fisher in the U.S. Senate race in Ohio. The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters, including leaners, finds Portman picking up 49% of the vote, while Fisher gets 41% support. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate, and eight percent (8%) are undecided. POW : GOP hopeful Pat Toomey holds an 8-point lead over Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak in the battle for Pennsylvania's open Senate seat, according to polling released Wednesday morning by Rasmussen Reports. Toomey, a Republican activist and former congressman, leads 49 percent to Sestak's 41 percent among 500 likely voters questioned Sept. 13; the margin of error was 4 points. Hey, it's not like a national party has to be competitive in Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Jim Geraghty
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Are They Still Swing States When They’re Not Competitive?
When your opponent ran for his last job by touting an ability to create jobs, and then failed to create any jobs… well, you end up with ads like this one for Rob Portman, Republican Senate candidate in Ohio: I look forward to the Lee Fisher ad entitled “Wait, Wait, Wait, I Get a Do-Over!” Jim Geraghty
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Those Old Campaign Pledges Can Be a Pain
Ben Smith of Politico notices , “Ohio [Democrat] Senate candidate Lee Fisher is crossing that line as well, with a campaign fundraiser [the evening of September 11] at the home of a Mansfield City councilwoman, Ellen Hairing.
