Posted on 10/16/2006 8:32:01 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Contrary to published reports that the Republican National Committee has decided to "write off" the Ohio Senate race, the RNC is about to begin a new, statewide TV buy in Ohio on behalf of the candidacy of Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH).
The buy, which costs in excess of $1 million, is scheduled to last for two weeks.
Polling continues to show the Ohio contest between DeWine and his Democratic challenger, Rep. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), to be close, though most state and national political observers believe that Brown has the advantage.
(Excerpt) Read more at rothenbergpoliticalreport.blogspot.com ...
Reports of DeWine's political abondonment are premature.
The NY Times has zero credibility with me.
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So once again the Slimes and the AP lied. What a surprise!
The mainstream press is not long on credibility. If their hopes don't come true on election night, it'll be another blow to it.
They pulled the same crap with Dino Rossi in Washington State in 2004. Reported that the RGA was pulling it's funds when in fact it wasn't.
There could have been no reason but to hurt Dino hoping to depress voter turnout and depress volunteer hours. I'd give them the benefit of the doubt, but the RGA said they hadn't even contacted them before the story hit.
Given the nature of his 'loss', it could have even been decisive. I hope it doesn't hurt DeWine.
All this race really comes down to is can DeWine separate hiself from the state people? Brown is way too liberal for Ohio, if the race becomes Brown v. DeWine, DeWine wins. It's only when the race is Brown v. Taft, (or, to a lesser extent, Brown v. Bush) that DeWine loses.
Well, in fairness, at least Blackwell actually is looking like he's going to lose (I hope all the polls are wrong, I love Blackwell, but it doesn't look good.), in Washington, they did it RIGHT as Rossi was gaining momentum. Like, literally, the past few polls showed the D under 50 and Rossi gaining. Talk about questionable timing.
this makes sense, what are the latest polls here?
Most of the latest polls show Brown leading by single digits, with an undecided vote of around 10%.
I'd read an article recently that suggested that, in recent years, undecided were not breaking to the challenger, as had been in the past. They seem to be going closer to 50/50.
I have a theory. It's pretty simple. Many undecideds are very likely to be people who will probably vote for the most media-demonized candidate. With the press leaning so much toward one side, people don't want to tell the pollster (or themselves?) that they're voting Republican.
There's going to be a lot of that this year. When people actually go into that booth, the frivolousness of the Dems will not work in their favor. Whether it makes a big difference has yet to be seen.
They actually ran this news story right after a break where their own station had aired a NRSC ad on behalf of DeWine.
News people at the stations didn't even check with their own sales department!
Ohio voters aren't that stupid.
By your logic, Republicans deserve to lose because of Foley.
And by the way....Look how quickly you believed the New York Times..It speaks to your credibility more than theirs. In my opinion.
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