But Steve Westly, the state Controller and former eBay executive, is digging deep into his own pockets and spending millions for a chance to take on Schwarzenegger. The establishment candidate is Phil Angelides, the state Treasurer who made millions in real estate. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), who just months ago entered the campaign a wounded incumbent, and now will face a battered Democratic nominee in November. The two Democrats vying for the party's gubernatorial nomination are spending millions of dollars attacking each other as the primary campaign heads into its final days. Heading into the midterm elections the Democratic Party is largely unified - bonded together by contempt for President Bush and the chance of winning control of the House and Senate as well as several gubernatorial races. "And it could well be that Ohio voters will look at the candidates and campaigns themselves, and not focus on external factors." "You shouldn't use spring results to speculate about the fall," he said. Rademacher, however, cautions against reading too much into the most recent numbers. The margin of error for this respondent pool is +/- 3.7 percent. Ted Strickland, a Democrat, leads Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, a Republican, 50 to 44 percent in the race to succeed Taft as governor. Sherrod Brown 52 to 42 percent among registered voters in the U.S. Neither Bush or Taft are on the 2006 ballot this fall, but some experts feel their unpopularity may drag on Ohio Republicans.Ī poll released last week, by the same organization, showed Republican Sen. The poll was conducted statewide between May 9 and May 21. The estimates - which include all adults sampled - had a margin of error of 3.4 percent. Party affiliation doesn't appear to make much difference in Taft's case: Only 29 percent of Republicans (and 22 percent of Democrats) approve of his job performance.
Twenty-six percent approved of his job performance - the lowest gubernatorial rating in this poll's history - while 65 percent disapproved. Sixty-three percent of Republicans approve of Bush's job performance, down from 84 percent in an April 2005 poll. "The views of Ohioans tend to match up pretty well with what you're seeing nationally," said Eric Rademacher, co-director of The Ohio Poll. Those presidential approval marks are the lowest in the Ohio Poll's 25-year history, surpassing Bill Clinton's 45 percent rating prior to the 1994 mid-term election, and 14 percentage points lower than a similar poll conducted just over a year ago. Only 35 percent of respondents approved of the way Bush was handling his job, while 63 percent disapproved. Bob Taft among Ohioans have fallen to fresh lows, according to University of Cincinnati's " Ohio Poll," painting a grim picture for the GOP in the battleground state. Bush's approval rating is the lowest for a president in the Ohio Poll's 25-year history.The approval ratings of President Bush and Gov.
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