Public Policy Polling found Gov. John Kasich (R) would lose by a substantial margin if voters had to redo the 2010 election.
Public Policy Polling recently spent some time talking to Ohio voters ahead of the March 6 primary.
Some of the interesting bits of information from the poll: many voters still appear to have buyer's remorse over John Kasich, especially after the battle of Senate Bill 5. Also, despite some of the buzz from the Washington establishment about the potential for Sen. Rob Portman (R) to be a VP pick this year, many Ohioans know very little about him.
Some excerpts from PPP's news release today:
-John Kasich's not getting any more popular. 33% of voters approve of him to 53% who disapprove. Only a little more than half of Republicans think he's doing a good job (58/25), while Democrats (9/80) are almost universal in their disapproval. If voters could do the 2010 election over again they'd vote for Ted Strickland by a 20 point margin, 56-36, numbers that not coincidentally track closely with the Senate Bill 5 repeal result from last fall.
-John Boehner's approval was 26/52 on our last national poll and it's not much better in his home state of Ohio at 28/54. Boehner has a similar situation to Kasich where Republicans are meh to him (53/28) while Democrats pretty much all dislike him (8/74). He also does badly with independents at 28/55.
In 2010 Ohio voters elected a Republican Governor and went GOP in many House races, helping to elect a new Republican Speaker of the House from their state. Now they regret the Governor and don't like the Speaker. It's hard for me to imagine that buyer's remorse isn't going to work to the benefit of Barack Obama and other Democrats in the state this fall.
-The best word to describe first term Senator Rob Portman would be anonymous. 42% of voters have no opinion about him, the highest figure we've found for any sitting Senator. Anyone who claims that Portman would be a great running mate for Mitt Romney and help him win Ohio probably deserves a special honor for banal punditry.
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