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

[Tender Branson]

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

[Landslide Lyndon]

Gee, who knew that an ex-Lehman Brothers executive and Wall Street apologist wouldn't make a good governor for Ohio.

[Horus]

Well at least I know I voted  the right way. Strickland might have been the flu, but Kasich is cancer.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Don't blame me, I voted for Strickland!

[Heimdal]

Thats tough. Too bad the election was last november.

[Marokai Backbeat]

I'm glad that public opinion is on our side, but unfortunately it's the voters' stupid fault for not paying attention to Kasich during the election when they had a chance. How Kasich is acting isn't exactly surprising to anyone informed.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

"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.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

As in Wisconsin case...

Too late. Now, suck these 4 long years with an idiot you elected.

[Nhoj]

As in Wisconsin case...

Too late. Now, suck these 4 long years with an idiot you elected.

Indeed, of course in many of the cases its more like Too late you didn't bother to vote.
Of course It does suck for those of us who did vote and didn't vote for the idiot that got elected.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

If you dont like him recall him. But since you know it is going to fail, your just going to have to wait.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Ohio doesn't have a recall mechanism.

[memphis]

It's rather breathtaking how quickly the GOP has squandered public goodwill. They've done in weeks what it took the Dems months to accomplish. 2012 is going to be a good year.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Yeah, well, they don't get a do-over now. They get 44 more months to reflect upon their gross stupidity.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

The test isn't this year or his approvals, we will see Kasich approvals if Obama can win Ohio again. But not good to start off and Obama is in the driver seat in Ohio and Wisconsin now.

[krazen1211]

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.

[Brittain33]

That puts him in decent company, given that Strickland got shellacked

Kasich defeated Strickland by only a few points in a terrible year for Dems in Ohio. Shades of Mary Jo Kilroy's win in OH-15 in 2008...

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

That puts him in decent company, given that Strickland got shellacked

Kasich defeated Strickland by only a few points in a terrible year for Dems in Ohio. Shades of Mary Jo Kilroy's win in OH-15 in 2008...

Kasich was never popular during the 2010 election cycle, even when the demographics were to his advantage. The last PPP poll had him at a 43-42 Favorable rating with a 17-40-43 (Lib-Mod-Con) composition and a voter universe that supported McCain 49-46.

Kasich was bound to be unpopular from the moment he was elected.

[Nichlemn]

What has Kasich done that is so unpopular?

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

What has Kasich done that is so unpopular?

The anti-union/anti-public employee/anti-gay marriage bill while simultaneously calling for tax cuts, a horrible budget, calling a police officer an "idiot" in a speech for giving him a ticket, having a really divisive governing style, getting a Republican kicked off a state senate committee so that the anti-public employee bill would pass, calling for large cuts in the state sales tax and income tax (although he hasn't been as vocal about this recently), plus a lack of any real improvement in Ohio's economy due to anything Kasich has done.  On top of all of that, he was never very popular to begin with. 

[Horus]

His state of the state was embarrassingly bad... He kept saying "The cavalry is coming" and went on and on about the devil being in Scioto county.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

His problem is that he is in the same state as Speaker Boehner. Both ran on cutting the deficit and creating jobs and neither has done anything and the GOP are getting what they deserve like the Democrats got.  Boehner is piece mealing cutting the deficit instead of dealing with it head on like he promised during the campaign by keep passing these ineffectual continuing resolutions.

[Tender Branson]

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

[Badger]

"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.

[Badger]

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.

[Verily]

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