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

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"I am going to win this election next week. The real question is what happens next year. I am going to do a lot of things that need to be done or have to be done that aren't going to be popular at all. Many of the politicians here, even on the GOP side of the aisle, are not going to like what I am going to do precisely for this very reason".


- A paraphrase of Kasich in private statement to a lesser talk radio guy prior to the election.

Garbage. Unmitigated garbage. There's little about Kasich's plan that "has" to happen. He's making a power grab and shifting the burden from the wealthy as fits his MO, and doing it under the guise of "making tough necessary choices".

We had a governor who did that, and we rewarded him by showing him the door.

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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.

That puts him in decent company, given that Strickland got shellacked and Celeste, well, didn't. Party-line union ramming doesn't seem to be all that popular in the short term.

Again, Krazen, SB5 passed with a quarter of GOP Senators defecting, and with the GOP having to remove a GOP senator from a committee to get it passed. No party line ramming here. When that much of the Ohio GOP says something is too unfair to unionized workers, you know its bad.

Well, you don't, but the rest of us who don't have a hard on against unions being up there with cancer on the list of bad things still get it.

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Where is Strickland getting shellacked coming from? He barely lost.

Incumbent governors almost always win re-election barring a scandal. If you lose, its rarely by much at all and its probably because you stink. The rest of the Democratic governors running for re-election in 2010 (Beebe, Quinn, O'malley, Lynch) all won; only Strickland and Culver lost.

Even Bob Taft got re-elected.

Well consider most new governors and presidents enter office with a honeymoon, these polls show voters think Kasich, Snyder, and Walker all stink. So ergo......