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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Poll: Voters still like Tressel, split over Boehner and Portman
Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel, despite his recent NCAA violations and five-game suspension at the start of next season, appears to be fairly popular, according to a Public Policy Polling survey released this week.
Overall, voters seem to think more of the coach than widely-known politicians including U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-West Chester, U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Cleveland, a former presidential candidate.
In the survey, released Monday, 43 percent had a favorable opinion of Tressel, 17 percent had an unfavorable opinion and 41 percent weren’t sure.
Among voters who said they were fans, 58 percent had a favorable opinion, compared to 13 percent unfavorable.
It was the first time in the poll for Tressel but college basketball coaches in two similarly successful programs did better among their fan bases, with Mike Krzyzewski of Duke getting a 77-8 favorable-unfavorable rating and North Carolina’s Roy Williams getting a 64/3 favorable-unfavorable rating, according to PPP, based in Raleigh, N.C.
Voters were split over Boehner’s job performance, with 37 percent approving and 38 percent disapproving and 25 percent not sure.
Voters appeared to still be getting used to Portman, in his first term. Twenty-five percent approved his performance, 22 percent disapproved and 53 percent didn’t have an opinion.
For Kucinich, 40 percent had an unfavorable opinion, while 27 percent viewed him favorably. Thirty-three percent weren’t sure.
The poll was taken March 10 - March 13 with 559 voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percent.
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TweetSchool choice backers rally at the Statehouse
Starlett Harrod of Oxford in Butler County had a simple, straightforward reason for joining more than 1,000 supporters of school choice who rallied outside Statehouse in Columbus on Tuesday:
“They’re our children.”
Harrod, who home schools her children, said parents should have a choice in how their children are educated, an opinion echoed by U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana, Secretary of State Jon Husted and other speakers.
Jordan used the biblical story of David’s conquest of Goliath the giant to woo the receptive crowd. The opponents of school choice seem formidable but David took another approach to Goliath, said Jordan:
“He’s so big I can’t miss him.”
Husted told those in the crowd that their movement was “about freedom.”
The rally came with the school choice movement on the upswing, backed by Republican Gov. John Kasich and the Republican-controlled legislature.
Kasich’s two-year budget proposal calls for increasing from 14,000 to 30,000 in the first year and 50,000 in the second year the number of vouchers available to students enrolled in public schools in districts rated in academic watch or academic emergency for two of the last three years and for removing the limit on charter schools.
Rep. Clayton Luckie, D-Dayton, whose parents paid for him to attend Catholic schools, said that he is concerned that the broad expansion of school choice would dilute the quality of all school programs - public, charter schools and vouchers.
“We have almost three systems and all of them are underfunded,” said Luckie.
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TweetOhio GOP names Darren Bearson as executive director
Darren Bearson, a veteran political strategist, has joined the staff of the Ohio Republican Party as executive director, Ohio GOP Chairman Kevin DeWine, of Fairborn, announced on Tuesday.
Bearson served as a regional political director for the Republican National Committee in the 2010 midterm elections, overseeing statewide voter turnout programs and infrastructure plans in eight states, according to a press release.
Before joining the RNC, he was executive director of the Minnesota Republican Party, the release said.
“Darren is one of the most talented and widely respected operatives in the nation and we are incredibly fortunate to bring him to Ohio,” DeWine said in the release.
“…We have a lot at stake in the 2012 presidential election and I look forward to working alongside Darren as we build a strong, well-funded party operation in Ohio that will lead us to victory.”
Jason Mauk, former Ohio GOP executive director, now is communications director for the Republican majority in the Ohio Senate.
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