Poll: Blackwell Leads, But 29% of Republican Voters Undecided

[LiberalHeart]

Republican Kenneth Blackwell led gubernatorial primary rival Jim Petro 39% to 32% in a new poll. But more than a quarter of likely Republican voters were undecided.

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http://wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=4731289

[movonne]

1. If the repugs are this stupid then they will get what the deserve..Ohio

is so screwed up and apparently the people of Ohio are OK with this corruption in their state then so be it..I'm tired of trying to change their minds because there is no use talking to a celery stalk.

[madmom]

5. I'm from Ohio and I'm certainly not ok with this corruption, and I'm

certainly not a celery stalk. There are some of us who are from places like this who need all the help we can get to turn things around, kinda like a compassionate colleague.

[NEOBuckeye]

9. Amen to that

I want Blackwell exposed for his Diebold dirty dealing and thrown behind bars. I am NOT for allowing the corruption perpetrated by the GOP to continue in my state.

[jseankil]

2. Good. Blackwell is extreme right, Petro is closer to the center

Stickland will have an easier time dismantling Blackwell.

[AndyTiedye]

13. Can Strickland Get 80% of the Vote?

Last Fall, we saw the initiatives leading by 2-1, a landslide margin,
going into election day.

They "lost" by 2-1 landslide margins!

That's more than 30% of the entire statewide vote.
And he got away with it.

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

3. Does Anybody Really Think Blackwell Will Lose?

If so, I've got a bridge to sell you.

So long as it's close, Blackwell will win.

[NEOBuckeye]

10. I do. And I'll see to it that he does. n/t

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

12. I Just Meant The Machines

I certainly hope that he loses, but I realize that he who controls the machines, controls the votes.

I can't see that in his position as head of elections in Ohio, that he hasn't taken every precaution to insure that he wins the primary. I'd say it's such a sure thing, that I'd place any amount of money on the fact he KNOWS it's a lock, and won't sweat a few point lead, when it's the final counting which matters, not polls.

[salin]

11. I would venture to bet that a whole lot of the "undecided" are

folks who are "closet racists" - as in they won't admit out loud that they won't vote for Blakcwell because he is black, but have no intention of voting for him. Saw the same dynamic a number of years ago in Louisiana - folks couldn't say out loud they were going to vote for KKKer David Duke, but did vote for him - there, too, the polls were skewed by those who would not respond (were "undecided.")

Pure speculation - I haven't lived in Ohio - but I have lived in two neighboring states and am guessing the covert racism one finds in swaths of Michigan and Indiana also exist in Ohio.

[LiberalHeart]

17. Why wouldn't they just say they're for Petro? (n/t)

[tom_paine]

15. Even if it's not close, the recent "test" of wholesale vote flipping

in the off-year 2005 "elections" show that there is NO margin that the Imperial Candidate cannot overcome.

Those two resolutions last year, both polled at 2-1 FOR, when Diebold was finished "tabulating", the vote was 2-1 AGAINST.

'Nuff said.

[DanCa]

4. If I were an ohio progressive

I would stongly try to get as many other progressives in ohio to vote for Pertro and than vote for Dem in the general election. This thing called Blackwell simply cannot be allowed to hold the position of Governor.

[Cyrano]

6. 29% of Republicans think Atilla the Hun rode elephants across the Red Sea

[Zynx]

7. They probably would if you said it to them with a straight face and threw

a reference to either supply-side economics or God in there.

[Cyrano]

8. Nah, that's over kill. Everyone knows Saint Ronnie parted the Red Sea

to let the fish trickle down to the poor.

[ThoughtCriminal]

14. Republican Primaries

A race to the bottom.

[Doctor_J]

16. The Primary AND the GE will be rigged

Whitewell will "win" both.