Do you approve or disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing as president?
45-45
...
Barack Obama, the Democrat - 50
Mitt Romney, the Republican - 38
Barack Obama and Joe Biden, the Democrats - 49
Mitt Romney and Rob Portman, the Republicans - 38
Barack Obama, the Democrat - 50
Rick Santorum, the Republican - 36
Barack Obama and Joe Biden, the Democrats - 51
Rick Santorum and Rob Portman, the Republicans - 37
Barack Obama, the Democrat - 51
Newt Gingrich, the Republican - 36
Barack Obama, the Democrat - 48
Ron Paul, the Republican - 38
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/A_Politics/_Today_Stories_Teases/120304NBCMaristOhioMarch2012.pdf
Either President Obama is taking off as a superb President or a slick campaigner, the Republicans have so bungled Ohio that they have turned it into a new Massachusetts or Minnesota, or the surviving Republican opponents seeking his job are collapsing simultaneously. Outlier? Obama has led Republicans by more than the margin of error in Ohio in several polls. Should this show a collapse of GOP credibility in Ohio alone, then things get bleak for Republicans in Ohio in November.
The only residual question is whether Ohio is a special case and no longer a legitimate swing state in national politics. If Ohio isn't a legitimate swing state, then what state takes its place? GOP victories in Ohio in 2010 may prove Pyrrhic victories.
