OH-Quinnipiac: Democrats ahead in 2010 Senate race

[Tender Branson]

DEM Primary:

Fisher: 20%
Brunner: 16%
Yates: 4%

GOP Primary:

Portman: 29%
Taylor: 8%
Ganley: 8%

General Election:

Fisher (D) vs. Portman (R): 42-31
Fisher (D) vs. Taylor (R): 41-29

Brunner (D) vs. Portman (R): 40-32
Brunner (D) vs. Taylor (R): 38-29

Favorable Ratings:

Fisher: 37% favorable, 13% unfavorable (+24)
Brunner: 31% favorable, 12% unfavorable (+19)
Portman: 22% favorable, 9% unfavorable (+13)

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1322.xml?ReleaseID=1295

[Ronnie]

Trust me, the race hasn't even started.

[Lunar]

Trust me, the race hasn't even started.

In terms of the Democratic primary, it may have already ended, as the establishment is increasingly pressuring Brunner to drop out.  Obviously joke numbers for a general election this far out, I mean... it's a name recognition poll and Portman has been raising 70% more money than Fisher and has yet to spend it.

Does 4% of the electorate really know who Yates is and wants to vote for him? 

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Trust me, the race hasn't even started.

In terms of the Democratic primary, it may have already ended, as the establishment is increasingly pressuring Brunner to drop out.  Obviously joke numbers for a general election this far out, I mean... it's a name recognition poll and Portman has been raising 70% more money than Fisher and has yet to spend it.

Does 4% of the electorate really know who Yates is and wants to vote for him? 

It looks like plenty of people know him well enough in his home base of Cincinnati to have an opinion of him - his favorables are 27/17 in the "southwest" regional crosstab.

[JSojourner]

My niece's husband works for Fisher.  He really likes him a lot...not that it's particularly pertinent to anything.

[Lunar]

I hear he's very likable as well.  How can you not enjoy the fact that his website prominently centers a [likely] homosexual dog?




My problem is that he's kind of part of the old guard, I'd rather get someone young and fresh like Tim Ryan installed.

[Landslide Lyndon]

If Hodes and Fisher get elected, than how many Jews will be in the Senate?

[JohnnyLongtorso]

If Hodes and Fisher get elected, than how many Jews will be in the Senate?

Currently 13, it would be 15, assuming Specter is re-elected.

[Lunar]

Bennet has to win [re]election too. 

Gillibrand could get knocked off by Israel, whom I assume is Jewish due to his last name.  Gelber probably can't win in Florida though.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Bennet has to win [re]election too. 

Gillibrand could get knocked off by Israel, whom I assume is Jewish due to his last name.  Gelber probably can't win in Florida though.

Can Bennet be considered Jewish? I know how the ancestry traditionaly passes from the mother but he wasn't raised as a Jew and he doesn't seem to practice any particular religion.

And yes, Israel is Jewish.

[Lunar]

Well, he's counted as one by Wikipedia and Wikipedia is never wrong.

[Lunar]

Of course Israel was Jewish.

Well, he's counted as one by Wikipedia and Wikipedia is never wrong.

"Bennet is Jewish because his mother is. But even in Poland, the Klejmans were not observant, and he did not grow up practicing that religious tradition." - from Wikipedia

So, he's technically Jewish.  Does that count?  There's probably a number of Christians as well as Jews in Congress that are not practicing.

[Brittain33]

So, he's technically Jewish.  Does that count?  There's probably a number of Christians as well as Jews in Congress that are not practicing.

Web sources for "who is Jewish" will always cast the widest net possible. If someone identifies as Jewish neither religiously nor culturally and was raised in a diverse family, I don't think it's appropriate to define him as such by his mother's ancestry. Russ Feingold is non-religious, to my knowledge, but still identified with his cultural heritage. Not that his last name gives him much of a choice.