"But Rassy is the only one since March to have Portman in the lead"
EAT IT HACKS!!!
And now that statement is no longer true. Point?
The point is to drive home how weak an arguement it was in the first place that simply because only Rassy had him in the lead, the Dems were going to win. The Financial advantage alone is staggering and even those precious "non Rassy" polls were within the MOE 40-39 or 40-38. Portman is the perfect statewide candidate in most settings based on his experience, bipartisan demenor, and campaign skills (both fundraising and his record of out performing his districts partisanship by about 10 points). And historically despite being a smaller regions, SW Ohio Republicans have done well statewide (The Taft family for instance). His only drawback was his service as OMB and Trade Rep. Knowing this, one would be worried, from the Dem perspective, by such poll numbers even though nominally Fisher had the lead.
This poll could easily be wrong and exaggerating Portmans advantage and my point would still be right.
What's really telling, is certain operatives in the Democratic party, agree with me, especially when it comes to the fundraising disparity.
