Ohio voters say Gov. Kasich (R) suxx, want Strickland back as Governor

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Do you approve or disapprove of Governor John Kasich’s job performance?

Approve .......................................................... 35%
Disapprove...................................................... 54%

If you could do last fall’s election for Governor over again, would you vote for Democrat Ted Strickland or Republican John Kasich?

Ted Strickland ....... 55%
John Kasich .......... 40%

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/PPP_Release_OH_0315513.pdf

The latest Ohio Poll finds 40 percent of Ohio adults approve of John Kasich’s performance as governor, 47 percent disapprove and 13 percent neither approve nor disapprove.

Kasich’s approval rating is lower than the initial gubernatorial approval rating recorded by the Ohio Poll for former Governors Strickland (68%), Taft (49%) and Voinoich (61%). Kasich’s rating is higher than the initial approval rating of former Governor Richard Celeste (32%).

As is often the case, Ohioans are sharply split along partisan lines when it comes to ratings of their governor. While far more Democrats disapprove (63%) than approve of Kasich’s performance (25%), far more Republicans approve (65%) than disapprove (26%). More independents disapprove (52%) than approve (30%) of Kasich’s performance at the present time.

These findings are based on the latest Ohio Poll, conducted by the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Cincinnati between March 1 and March 9, 2011.

http://www.ipr.uc.edu/documents/op031411.pdf

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A third poll shows Kasich with very weak numbers, this time Quinnipiac:

Ohio voters disapprove 46 - 30 percent of the way Gov. John Kasich is handling his job, with women disapproving 48 - 25 percent and men disapproving 44 - 37 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Voters say 53 - 36 percent that Gov. Kasich's budget is unfair to them.

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1322.xml?ReleaseID=1570

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And there's another poll by the GOP-leaning "We Ask America", with the worst results yet:

Type of Poll: Automated
Sample: 1,136 Ohio voting households
Date of Poll: 3/22/201
Margin of Error: ±2.91%

35.5% Approve
57.6% Disapprove

http://weaskamerica.com/2011/03/23/cuts-cuts-more-cuts/

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A new Wenzel Strategies (R) poll also shows that Kasich is very unpopular:

Governor Kasich appears to be caught in the political maelstrom of Senate Bill 5, as just 37% in the survey gave him positive job approval marks, compared to 56% who gave him negative marks, including 43% who said he is doing a “poor” job, the strongest negative option available to poll respondents. Even among fellow Republicans, just 65% give him positive job performance ratings, but he is clearly in trouble among independent voters – 59% of whom gave him negative marks for his job performance.

Wenzel Strategies conducted a telephone survey of likely voters statewide in Ohio on April 6-7, 2011.  The survey included 1,264 respondents and carries a 95% confidence interval and a margin of error of +/- 2.72 percentage points.

http://www.wenzelstrategies.com/blog/polls