With hours to go before Ohio voters choose a successor to termed-out Republican Gov. John Kasich, the betting in the Buckeye State is “Cordray by a hair.”
The last two major polls both showed Democrat Richard Cordray, former state attorney general and Obama administration official, edging Republican Mike DeWine, the present state attorney general and former U.S. senator.
The Gravis poll completed last week showed Cordray beating DeWine by 48 to 43 percent, with a margin of error of +/-3.5 percentage points.
Gravis’s findings echoed those in an Emerson Poll also completed last week. Emerson showed Cordray leading DeWine 49 to 46 percent. The margin of eror was +/-4.3 percent.
“Cordray is more of a change candidate,” Herb Asher, Ohio State University political scientist and author of three books, told Newsmax. “Also, perhaps there is some fatigue with one-party control of the executive and legislative branches of government.”
Since 1990, Republicans have controlled the governorship for all but four years, held nearly all of the statewide elected offices, and had control of the state House and Senate almost all of that time.
Two years ago, Donald Trump handily carried Ohio’s electoral vote and Republican Sen. Rob Portman was re-elected in a landslide.
John Gizzi is chief political columnist and White House correspondent for Newsmax. For more of his reports, Go Here Now.
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