Brown beats DeWine in Dispatch poll,Hackett in dead heat w/DeWine

[Algorem]

Voters appear far from sold on DeWine

http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2005/11/07/20051107-A1-03.html

Monday, November 07, 2005

After serving almost 11 years in the U.S. Senate, Republican Mike DeWine is drawing support for re-election in 2006 from fewer than a third of Ohio voters, a new Dispatch Poll shows.

He has two potential Democratic challengers who announced their candidacies only in the past month. Yet the poll shows DeWine in a virtual dead heat with newcomer Paul Hackett and losing narrowly to U.S. Rep. Sherrod Brown.

The survey underscores why Democratic leaders in Washington have made DeWine a target. Experts such as Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, already are labeling Ohio’s Senate race next year a tossup.

The significance of surveys taken a year before an election is somewhat dubious, of course. Yet it’s hard to find a bright spot for an elected official — one who has occupied a statewide office since 1991 (he previously was lieutenant governor) — struggling to get backing from 30 percent of the voters...


http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2005/11/07/20051107-A4-04.html

http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2005/11/07/20051107-A4-00.html

[MercutioATC]

1. Hackett's name isn't known statewide yet...

This ought to be interesting.

[Tiggeroshii]

2. Others show hackett beating Dewine by 10 points

on hackett's site, there's a poll. www.hackettforohio.com