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Monday, November 1, 2010
Husted elections complaint dismissed
The Ohio Elections Commission’s probable cause panel today issued an administrative dismissal of a complaint against Maryellen O’Shaughnessy, the Democratic candidate for Ohio secretary of state, according to Chris Hughes, assistant to the commission.
The complaint filed by the campaign of state Sen. Jon Husted, R-Kettering, accused O’Shaughnessy of falsely claiming in a television advertisement that Husted has a record of accepting illegal campaign contributions.
The panel failed to reach a majority vote on the complaint, said Hughes.
“The OEC panel simply ruled on what we already knew to be true: Jon Husted is grasping at straws, lying to voters any way he can think to,” said Heidi Hubmann, spokeswoman for O’Shaughnessy, who is Franklin Co. Clerk of Courts.
Husted spokesman Ryan Frazee declined comment.
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TweetOhio Poll projects wins for GOP - Kasich for governor, Portman for U.S. Senate
The final Ohio Poll for 2010 projects wins for Republican John Kasich in the governor’s race and Republican Rob Portman in the U.S. Senate race.
The poll, released Monday, shows Kasich, the challenger, leading Democratic incumbent Gov. Ted Strickland, 52-47.7 percent, among probable voters. The results are after an allocation of undecided voters to the candidates they are most likely to support.
Portman leads Democrat Lee Fisher, 60-39.2 percent in the poll.
The poll, sponsored by the University of Cincinnati, is based on interviews with 930 probable voters conducted between Wednesday, Oct. 27 through Sunday, Oct. 31, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.
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TweetQuinnipiac Poll: Ohio governor’s race “dead heat”
The race for Ohio governor between Democratic incumbent Ted Strickland and Republican challenger John Kasich is a “dead heat” among likely voters with Kasich getting 47 percent support and Strickland 46 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday.
In the U.S. Senate seat, Republican Rob Portman, a former Cincinnati-area congressman and budget director and U.S. trade representative under President George W. Bush, leads Democrat Lee Fisher, the lieutenant governor, 56-37 percent.
The poll’s margin of error is plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
The results in the governor’s race show continual improvement for Strickland, who trailed by 17 points, 54-37 percent in a Quinnipiac poll released Sept. 16.
“Gov. Strickland has come from far back,” Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a a press release.
“He has momentum on his side. John Kasich has the historical tendency of undecided voters to break against well-known incumbents at the very end of a campaign.”
In the new poll, Strickland leads among Democrats, 90-6 percent, while Kasich, a former Columbus-area congressman, is ahead among Republicans, 83-10 percent and among independent voters, 57-36 percent.
Six percent are undecided and 5 percent say they’ll support another candidate.
Support for Kasich and Strickland seems firm, with the election just a day away.
Ninety six percent of Kasich supporters and 94 percent of Strickland supporters say their minds are made up while just 4 percent of Kasich backers and 6 percent of Strickland backers say they might change their minds.
Other poll results:
*Kasich leads, 55-41 percent among men; Strickland leads, 50-41 percent among women.
*Voters split on how they view Strickland - 45 percent favorable and 45 percent unfavorable.
*Forty seven percent view Kasich favorably and 37 percent view him unfavorably.
The poll was taken Oct. 25 - Saturday with 848 likely voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
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TweetYvette McGee Brown to campaign in Lebanon, Hamilton
Yvette McGee Brown, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, will make stops at phone banks in Hamilton and Lebanon to get out the vote on Monday, her campaign said.
She will be at the Hamilton campaign office, 217 Court St., at 3:15 p.m.
At 4 p.m., she will be in Lebanon at 4:15 p.m. at 1975 N. US Route 42, the campaign said.
She also will make stops in Cincinnati.
Her stops in Republican-friendly southwest Ohio will come while her running mate, Gov. Ted Strickland, campaigns in northeastern Ohio, a region more friendly to Democrats.
They’re running against Republicans John Kasich, the GOP candidate for governor, and Auditor Mary Taylor, Kasich’s running mate.
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