Election 2008: Too close to call in Ohio

Howard Wilkinson reports:

If Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Rudolph Giuliani were facing off in the presidential election today, Ohio voters would be split nearly dead even, according to a new Quinnipiac Poll.

And having Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland on the ticket as a vice presidential candidate – a job Strickland says he is not interested in – would not help the Democratic presidential candidate, according to the poll from Quinnipiac University in Connecticut.

The Quinnipiac Poll, which surveyed 1,231 Ohio voters between Nov. 6-11, showed Clinton with 44 percent support and Giuliani 43. That is an improvement for the former New York City mayor, who trailed Clinton in Ohio by six percentage points in an October Quinnipiac Poll.

The poll shows some serious obstacles among women, however:

- 46 percent of married Ohio women say they would never vote for Clinton.

- Meanwhile, 46 percent of single women say they'd never for for Guiliani.

Read the poll here