Poll: Obama, Brown favored to beat prospective challengers

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: The Columbus Dispatch

Both President Barack Obama and Sen. Sherrod Brown currently beat all their top prospective 2012 challengers in Ohio, a new Quinnipiac Poll shows.

Obama tops three out of four Republicans by double digits, even though Ohio voters are almost evenly divided over whether he deserves a second term.

"Ohio voters may not be wild about President Barack Obama, but at this point they appear to like his potential Republican challengers less, and in some cases a lot less," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, in a statement.

"His middling job and re-election ratings show that there may be a potential opportunity to defeat President Obama in 2012 in Ohio, but for that to occur the GOP will have to nominate a candidate that can capture the public's imagination to a degree not yet evident."

Read more: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/07/21/21_poll-obama-brown.html?sid=101

[liberal N proud]

1. The right wing organizations are sure attacking Sherrod Brown here in Ohio

The ads on TV and radio are insert name and picture here type ads. I saw the exact same ad in Missouri earlier this month attacking McCaskil.

[Freddie Stubbs]

2. It would appear that those attacks are not working

[hakko936]

3. In Ohio,

the economy sucks, unemployment is killing us, and the foreclosure rate is high. Combine those three and Obama is beatable. His best friend in Ohio right now is Kasich. If that idiot continues to do thing the way he is doing them, humpty dumpty could beat a republican here.

[JTFrog]

4. K&R