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Columbus
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Poll:
Ohio voters against Obama
re-election, but he beats the competition
By Darrel Rowland
September 30, 2011
A
majority of Ohio voters says
President Barack Obama doesn’t deserve re-election, but he still
narrowly beats
the top Republican candidates in head-to-head matchups.
A
Quinnipiac poll released today shows
that 53 percent disapprove of his job performance and 51 percent say he
does
not deserve another term.
“President
Barack Obama’s standing
among all Ohio voters is back to its lowest ever,” said Peter A. Brown,
assistant director of the Connecticut university’s polling institute,
in a news
release.
But
Ohio Republicans can’t decide
which of their White House hopefuls is best suited to take on the
politically
vulnerable president.
“The
Republican presidential race in
Ohio at this point is shifting back and forth between former
Massachusetts Gov.
Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry,” Brown said.
In
a prospective GOP primary with nine
candidates, Romney comes out with the most support, at 24 percent. But
Perry is
close behind, at 20. No one else makes it into double figures.
However,
in a two-person race, Perry
beats Romney by 4 points, 42 percent to 38 percent.
Obviously
many Republicans are still
undecided on a 2012 champion.
No
matter who is matched up with
Obama, the incumbent Democrat wins – although the margin over Perry and
Romney
is within the survey’s margin of sampling error.
Obama
tops Perry by 3 points, 44
percent to 41 percent, and Romney by 2, 44 to 42.
“Perry’s
strength is among two large
constituencies within the Republican coalition,” Brown said. “In a
two-man
race, Perry defeats Romney 57 – 30 percent among Republicans who
consider
themselves part of the Tea Party movement. He leads Romney 48 – 33
percent
among Republicans who are white, evangelical Christians.”
Another
troubling sign for Democrats:
So far, the much-vaunted “enthusiasm gap” that propelled Republicans to
victories across the country in 2010 is evident in the new poll
numbers. A
majority – 51 percent – of Republicans say they are “more enthusiastic
than
usual” about the 2012 election, while just 23 percent of Democrats say
they
feel that way.
In
Ohio’s U.S. Senate race, state
Treasurer Josh Mandel leads former state Sen. Kevin Coughlin 33 percent
to 12
percent in a prospective GOP primary. However, Democrat Sen. Sherrod
Brown is
topping both by double digits: 53 percent to 32 percent over Coughlin,
and 49
to 36 percent over Mandel.
Ohio
voters approve of the job Brown
is doing by 52 percent to 31 percent and by 50 percent to 34 percent
say he
deserves another term in office.
The
telephone poll using both land and
cell lines from Sept. 20 through Sunday of 1,301 registered Ohio voters
has a
margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.7 percentage points.
The
poll is online at
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/images/polling/oh/oh09282011.doc
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