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

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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.

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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.

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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.

Not really. This is just you projecting your own short term beliefs into the long term.

Obviously, if Celeste can get re-elected despite starting at 32% due to his own shenanigans, Kasich can rebound. I suspect he will.