President Obama would win Ohio if election were today, poll says

[OhioChick]

Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 11:26 AM

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama would win Ohio, and therefore probably the nation, if the 2012 election were held today, according to a new poll released this morning by Quinnipiac University.

Obama, a Democrat, would beat former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, 47 percent to 41 percent.

If former Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum were the Republican nominee, Obama would win 47 percent to 40 percent.

A similar trend holds in two other key swing states, Florida and Pennsylvania, according to the Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll, although the race would be closer in Pennsylvania. No one has won the White House since 1960 without carrying at least two of these three critical states.

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2012/03/president_obama_would_win_ohio.html

[Ninga]

1. This Ohioan is going to work very very hard to make sure that

what is true in March, becomes true in November.

[liberal N proud]

2. We will do what we can to help him win Ohio in the fall.

[JohnnyRingo]

3. Then let's vote tomorrow.

I'll be doing what I can with my usual phone banking, a task I enjoy less than with previous campaigns (the hatred is often uncensored for this president), but I'm going to focus more this year on helping Sherrod Brown keep his seat.

I plan to send the Obama camoaign $50 or so, but the majority of my financial allowance will go to counter the scads of money the GOP has already commited to the senate battle. The loss of either Obama or Brown will be devastating, but I'm a really big fan of the latter, and shudder to imagine the consequences of a Tea Baggin' Republican in that senate seat. hopefully, my congressman Tim Ryan is safe.

[safeinOhio]

4. The republicans in this town

use to talk politics all the time. Now, when I bring up Mitt, they say little.

[Jim Lane]

5. It's surprising that the Romney and Santorum matchups are so similar.

I've always adhered to the conventional wisdom that Romney would be the much tougher opponent. On these numbers, though, he does only one percentage point better than Santorum would in a race against Obama.

One possible explanation is that many of the Tea Party types who support Santorum are petulantly telling pollsters that they wouldn't vote for Romney. Unfortunately, if Romney becomes the nominee, those voters are likely to sulk through September and October but then vote for Romney in November. The race is probably closer than these numbers suggest.