JUSIPER
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Yikes
45% of white evangelical voters in Ohio disapprove of Bush.
Seventy percent said that both Ohio and the nation were on the wrong track, a number that often spells doom for the party in power. [...]
Only a third of Ohio voters approve of the job Mr. Bush is doing as president or the way he is handling the economy, and they seem poised to take their discontent out on Republican candidates up and down the ballot. Republican officials at the national level said this week they had all but written off the Senate and governor’s races in Ohio and were diverting resources to other states where they believed they had a better chance of winning.
“In Ohio we’ve seen nothing but our manufacturing jobs cease to exist,” said one poll respondent, David Stuck, 59, of Miami Township, who said he had voted twice for Mr. Bush. Mr. Stuck, a Republican, blamed inaction at the federal level for the evaporation of jobs in Ohio and said he planned to vote for the Democratic candidate for United States Senate, Sherrod Brown, over the incumbent, Mike DeWine, a Republican.
“Call it a protest,” Mr. Stuck said in a follow-up interview. “I haven’t seen anything done in the last six years. To be honest, I’m truly thinking about voting Democratic across the board because I’m tired of Bush.”
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