Fisher, Portman Locked In Hors

POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Thursday, July 1, 2010
From CNN's Leslie Bentz The CNN Washington Bureau's morning speed read of the top stories making news from around the country and the world. Washington/POLITICAL For the latest political news: www.CNNPolitics.com CNNMoney: House OKs Wall Street Reform Bill The House voted 237-192 Wednesday to pass a sweeping package of Reforms to the Financial regulatory system, moving the Bill a step closer to the finish line. But the Senate isn't likely to take up the measure until the week of July...

Poll indicates Ohio Senate race wide open as Biden visits
From CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser (CNN) - The battle for Ohio's open Senate seat remains deadlocked, according to a new Poll.

OH Sen Poll: Tight Race Between Fisher, Portman
Ohio Democratic Senate Candidate Lee Fisher and Republican Rob Portman are running one of the more competitive races in the country, a new Quinnipiac Poll finds (June 22-27, 1107 RV, MoE +/- 3%). The two are statistically tied, with Fisher leading by 2 points in the race to replace retiring Republican George Voinovich. Fisher 42 (+2 vs. last Poll, April 29) Portman 40 (+3) Und 17 (-4) Both Candidates have positive favorable numbers but remain unknown to a large chunk of the electorate....

OH Sen Poll: Another Small Lead For Fisher
Public Policy Polling is the second Polling firm to release a poll today that finds Ohio Senate nominee Lee Fisher (D) leading Republican Rob Portman (R) by 2 points. The PPP poll has Fisher up 40%-38%; Quinnipiac's survey, which found Fisher up 42%-40%, was released this morning . Neither Candidate is particularly well-known in the state, even among their own parties, and 22% of Voters remain Undecided. Half of Republicans don't know enough about Portman to hold an opinion of him, and 40% of...

Biden: Voters will turn to Democrats in the fall
Cleveland— In a campaign stop for a nominee for U.S. Senate, Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Democrats may be vulnerable in the summer but voters will look at contrasts in the fall. "This is not about the next election," Biden told about 200 people at a Fundraising lunch for Democrat Lee Fisher at the Great Lakes Science Center. "This is about the next generation." Biden, noting the science center overlooking Lake Erie, also said "Republicans don't believe in science. "Look...

OH: 42% Fisher, 40% Portman (Quinnipiac 6/22-27)
Quinnipiac 6/22-27/10; 1,107 Registered Voters, 3% Margin of Error Mode: Live telephone interviews ( Quinnipiac release ) Ohio 2010 Senate 42% Fisher (D), 40% Portman (R) ( chart ) Favorable / Unfavorable Lee Fisher: 28 / 17 Rob Portman: 26 / 7 Job Approval / Disapproval Sen. Brown: 46 / 29 ( chart ) Sen. Voinovich: 48 / 31 ( chart ) Pres. Obama: 45 / 49 ( chart )

For Senate Advocates of Unemployment Insurance Extension, a Battle to Nowhere
Senate Republicans, led by Mitch McConnell (Ky.), have repeatedly blocked attempts to extend Unemployment Insurance over Deficit concerns. (epa/ZUMApress.com) On Wednesday night, a bare-bones measure to keep federally funded Unemployment Insurance checks headed to the long-term unemployed failed in the Senate. Moderate Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine had signed on to vote for cloture on the $34 Billion bill. But without Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), who passed away...

Wide Open Race for Ohio Senate
A new Quinnipiac Poll in Ohio finds Lee Fisher (D) and Rob Portman (R) lcoked in a tight race for U.S. Senate with Fisher holding a narrow lead, 42% to 40%, and 17% still Undecided. Said pollster Peter Brown: "The Senate race remains far, far from any kind of clear picture, mostly because neither Candidate is well known to Ohioans. Even though Fisher has been a figure in Ohio politics for two decades, 54% of voters say they don't know enough about him to form an opinion. For Portman, 66%...

OH-Sen, OH-Gov: 3 Out of 4 Ain't Bad
PPP (pdf) (6/26-27, Ohio voters, 3/20-21 in parens): Lee Fisher (D) : 40 (36) Rob Portman (R) : 38 (41) Undecided : 22 (23) (MoE:

Fisher leads Portman despite Ohio rejecting the PPACA
We have two new Polls to look at on the Ohio Senate race, one from Quinnipiac University and the other from Public Policy Polling . The results are very similar, so I think it’s pretty safe to say that for the moment, Lee Fisher leads Rob Portman, though by a hair. Quinnipiac has Fisher up 42-40 (MoE 3), despite the Poll having Ohio oppose the “federal Health Care overhaul” 55-36. PPP’s results are only slightly different, showing Fisher up 40-38 (MoE 4.5) and...

Charlie Crist Sued
By Larry Thornberry on 7.1.10 @ 6:08AM TAMPA -- Florida's former RINO Governor Charlie Crist, who shed his Republican disguise in April to seek a U.S. Senate seat as an independent, has shaken both sides of the money tree to great effect. But it's not clear now if he'll get away with it. A Florida Republican legislator and attorney in Naples is suing Crist in an attempt to get Crist to, as we phrase it in the South, do right. When Crist filed for the Senate seat in the spring of 2009 as a...

OH: 2010 Sen (PPP 6/26-27)
Public Policy Polling (D) 6/26-27/10; 482 Likely Voters, 4.5% Margin of Error Mode: Automated phone ( PPP release ) Ohio 2010 Senate 40% Fisher (D), 38% Portman (R) ( chart ) Favorable / Unfavorable Lee Fisher: 28 / 27 Rob Portman: 22 / 25 Job Approval / Disapproval Pres. Obama: 42 / 54 ( chart ) Sen. Voinovich: 21 / 48 ( chart )

Poll: Fisher clinging to lead
Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher holds a narrow, two-point lead over former Republican Rep. Rob Portman in the race for retiring Sen. George Voinovich's seat, according to a Quinnipiac University Poll released Wednesday. That margin is virtually unchanged since April, when Quinnipiac showed Fisher ahead by two points, even though Portman became the first Candidate to go on the air with Television advertisements since then. A former Budget director and U.S. trade representative under President George...

Fisher leads Portman despite Ohio rejecting the PPACA
We have two new Polls to look at on the Ohio Senate race, one from Quinnipiac University and the other from Public Policy Polling . The results are very similar, so I think it’s pretty safe to say that for the moment, Lee Fisher leads Rob Portman, though by a hair. Quinnipiac has Fisher up 42-40 (MoE 3), despite the Poll having Ohio oppose the “federal Health Care overhaul” 55-36. PPP’s results are only slightly different, showing Fisher up 40-38 (MoE 4.5) and...

Kentucky Senate: Paul 49%, Conway 41%
Just after his big Republican Primary win last month, Rand Paul led his Democratic opponent Jack Conway by 25 points  in Kentucky's U.S. Senate race. Now Paul's lead is down to just eight points. The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey finds the GOP nominee with support from 49% of the state's Voters while Conway earns 41% of the vote. Four percent (4%) prefer some other Candidate, and six percent (6%) are Undecided. Almost all Candidates receive a bounce following a...

Poll: Strickland leads but under 50 percent in re-election bid
From CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland holds a small lead over his Republican challenger in his Bid this year for a second term in office. (CNN) - Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland holds a small lead over his Republican challenger in his Bid this year for a second term in office, according to a new Poll. The Quinnipiac University survey , released Tuesday morning, also indicates that more Ohio voters favor than oppose passing an Immigration law similar to the...

Have Obama and the Democrats forgotten how to fight?
One of the strangest lead sentences I have ever encountered appeared in Politico last week . It read: "John Kerry has been the most aggressive advocate of Climate Change Legislation in the Senate this year -- so aggressive that it's rubbed some of his colleagues the wrong way." This Story The story went on to say that Kerry's "zeal" is "making some Swing-vote Democrats cringe at the thought of negotiating with someone they fear is tone-deaf to the political realities...

Independent Voters Favor GOP in 2010 Election Tracking
Princeton, NJ -- By an average 10 percentage-point margin since March, 45% to 35%, independent Registered Voters have consistently preferred the Republican to the Democrat when asked which Congressional Candidate they would vote for in their district. Independents' preference for Republicans has been generally consistent over this time, with The Gap in favor of Republicans increasing slightly since March, from 8 to 12 points. Currently about one in five independent Registered Voters are...

Rasmussen Reports, You Decide, Vol. 21
*Note: All polls have a Margin of Error of monkey-fuck ridiculous.

Rasmussen Reports, You Decide, Vol. 21
*Note: All polls have a Margin of Error of monkey-fuck ridiculous.

U.S. Deficit-Reduction Panel Gives Priority to Spending Cuts
By JOHN D. MCKINNON Democrats on a blue-ribbon Deficit-reduction panel suggested Spending Cuts would likely have to outweigh Tax Increases if the nation is to seriously tackle its ballooning financial obligations. The discussions came as Congressional Budget analysts projected that federal Debt would rise to 62% of gross domestic product by the end of 2010, the highest level since the aftermath of World War II. That's up from 40% at the end of 2008. Erskine Bowles, the Democratic co-chairman...

Fisher leads in Ohio
Lee Fisher has taken a 40-38 lead in the Ohio Senate race, representing a seven point improvement for him since PPP last surveyed the contest in March and found Rob Portman ahead by a 41-36 margin. You might expect that uptick in Fisher's prospects to be attributable to strengthening his support with the Democratic Base in the wake of his primary victory last month, but it's actually because he's showing stronger support from Republicans. He gets 69% of the Democratic vote this month, just a...

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland has slight lead in poll
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democrat, has a small lead over Republican challenger John Kasich in the state's gubernatorial race, but Kasich remains unknown to half the state's voters, according to a Quinnipiac University Poll released today. Strickland is up 43% to 38% in the Poll, about the same as in a survey taken in April. The Poll has a Margin of Error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. "The good news for Strickland is that he is ahead," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the...

In speech, Obama to argue for immigration overhaul
Washington— President Barack Obama hopes to rally new momentum behind the push for an Immigration overhaul by explaining why he thinks a comprehensive approach is the only way to fix what he and others say is a system badly in need of repair. Obama was laying out his rationale in a Speech Thursday, his first as president on the issue. Obama wasn't expected to announce any new proposals or policy changes. But feeling pressure from a range of supporters, he was aiming to jump-start the...

In speech, Obama to argue for immigration overhaul
Washington — President Barack Obama hopes to rally new momentum behind the push for an Immigration overhaul by explaining why he thinks a comprehensive approach is the only way to fix what he and others say is a system badly in need of repair. Obama was laying out his rationale in a Speech Thursday, his first as president on the issue. Obama wasn't expected to announce any new proposals or policy changes. But feeling pressure from a range of supporters, he was aiming to jump-start the...