Ohio Senate Race Looks Good For Brown
With only about 4 weeks until the general election on November 7, the Ohio senate race pitting Republican incumbent Mike DeWine and his Democratic challenger Congressman Sherrod Brown is not looking good for the incumbent.
Poll published on October 5, shows Sherrod Brown leading Mike DeWine 49% to 41%. Brown's lead has been slowly growing since June when DeWine was up by as much as 7 points.
Brown's also doing better among his own party, with a favorability rating of about 86% while DeWine's coming in at 77% with Republicans.
Comments
Dave, I think the 70% re-election rate is about right. That means there would be a turnover of about 130 seats every two years in the Hose. I could live with that especially if it meant a influx of independents. The key in my view is to remove the stranglehold on committe chairs that any majority party holds. This Congress has effectively neutered the public voice by instituting Hastert's policy of no law will be voted on unless a majority of the majority party agrees with it. In this case, nothing a Democrat proposes has a chance of getting to the floor unless a majority of the Republicans agree to it. That's holding the democratic process hostage in my view.
Posted by: Dennis | October 10, 2006 4:33 PM
I watched a debate this morning between Webb (D) and incumbent Sen. Allen (R). Allen got slammed by Webb on the Taiwan issue as Webb asked him about that situation and Sen. Allen revealed he didn't have a clue what Webb was talking about, saying he would have to research the issue.
Allen's poll numbers continue to fall behind the margin of error for a competitive race.
Posted by: David R. Remer | October 10, 2006 7:39 PM
Webb was SoN when I was in the Corps. He's not the greatest candidate, but anything's better than Makaka boy.
But Allen's the perfect example of why there's more that needs to be done in anti-incumbent awareness. His poll numbers are still too high among people who say that didn't matter to them. How can that not matter?
Posted by: Zebster | October 10, 2006 8:09 PM
Dennis, we can't target a specific number yet, but, it seems to me we, the voters, will need to reduce the 90+ percentage for politicians being reelected to the neighborhood of 70% or so, before the incumbents and new freshman get the message.
That message of course being that: the nation's and the people's issues must push lobbyists, campaign donors, and political party power plays to the back seat.
That means a pretty fair number of Democrats and Republicans are going to have to get bounced. But, the longer our problems continue to grow, the easier that will become.
Posted by: David R. Remer | October 10, 2006 8:24 PM
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