Poll: Strickland way out front
Democrat Ted Strickland holds a 21 percentage point lead over Republican Ken Blackwell in the Ohio governor’s race, according to an independent poll released Tuesday.
The Quinnipiac University poll, conducted Sept. 11-17 , showed Strickland with 55 percent to Blackwell’s 34 percent.
Last week, a Zogby Interactive poll sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, showed a much closer race. That poll, conducted Aug. 29 through Sept. 5, had Strickland with 47.5 percent to 41.8 percent for Blackwell.
Wednesday, the University of Cincinnati’s Institute for Policy Research will release its latest Ohio Poll on the Ohio governor’s race and the U.S. Senate contest between Republican incumbent Mike DeWine and Democratic challenger Sherrod Brown.
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Post a Comment*The People of Ohio have seen what a derainged radical Ken Blackwell is and they are going to send him packing. Good riddance.
Yes, I just read the poll from Quinnipiac.
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x19462.xml
And the margin is far greater than the percentage of undecided voters.
Folks must be getting it that gimmick's like Blackwell's 65-percent solution for education will further cripple our state and hog-tie local boards of education. Fits right with our race to the bottom in terms of higher education. See Dispatch op-ed.
http://tinyurl.com/qrq8w
since the enuirer won't write a decent tory on it-- here's the dispatch
State audit says another $200 million misspent by Hamilton County
By Catherine Candisky
The Columbus Dispatch
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
State officials are questioning another $200 million in tax dollars spent by the Hamilton County Department of Job and Services.
In a special audit released today, Ohio Auditor Betty D. Montgomery questioned more than $37 million in spending. She also found that another $169 million had been improperly transferred from the public assistance fund to the children's assistance fund and must be returned.
But the auditor, who is running for attorney general, seemed to downplay the $200 million in questionable spending.
“We regret that (the) Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services is faced with this enormous financial challenge,” Montgomery said in a prepared statement. “It is our hope that our findings and recommendations will help the county and the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services ensure this does not happen again in the future.”
The audit was the second report in less than a week to question spending and accounting practices at the county agency serving children, the poor and unemployed. In all, about $2.2 billion in spending is now being questioned.
A 180-page audit by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services released last week accused the county agency of misspending $224 million during a three-year period ending in 2004. In addition, state officials questioned another $1.7 million in spending.
Job and Family Services Director Barbara E. Riley said the agency deliberately commingled funds and played a shell game that allowed it to avoid local matching payments and receive federal aid it was not entitled to get.
County officials last week insisted that every dollar was spent on needy families and children. They said they relied on the state for guidance and have asked for an extension of the 30 days they were given to provide documentation that could counter the findings.
The state Department of Job and Family Services and auditor's office launched a joint audit in December 2004.
The Spinquirer would like us to think that Blackwell is the gov.-elect. Anybody who still thinks so is throwing money down a rathole if they donate to this clown.
Somehow this poll, which says "Landslide," doesn't make it into the print edition, or the regular news website. It was important enough to be in real newspapers like the Dispatch and DDN.
Ken Blackwell would make a good governor for Ohio. He has morals and character and will do what is right. He will stand up for those that can not speak for themselves. For those that want to send Ohio into a hole it will never recover elect strickland. His answers are to spend spend spend. I do not want him wasting my tax dollars.
Hey Anonymous 9:59 P.M.:
The Enquirer has written about the JFS audit for months, including the missing money. Actually it got the numbers right -- not exaggerating losses at $1 billion like the Dogpatch.
Note that the state enablers have anonymously leaked their slant/spin to the Greatest Capital City Homer Newspaper first. Why? Because the state screwed up equally -- if not more -- in losing the misplaced money in the first place. Multiply that by 88 counties and you DO HAVE BILLIONS LOST. How about looking in some other counties? Guaranteed more of the same. But the state wants to taint and sway voters in Hamilton County for homeboys like Blackwell and Heimlick. Follow that money to cronies and former aides of Ney, Taft and others!
Blackwell is an opportunist.
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