COLUMBUS, Ohio – Unfamiliarity remains a big challenge to Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald’s campaign to unseat Republican Ohio Governor John Kasich in November, according to the latest poll by Quinnipiac University.
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Less than 100 days before the election, 65 percent of Ohio voters don’t know enough about FitzGerald to form an opinion of him, says Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.
“That’s an awful lot of Ohioans who still have to be introduced to him,” Brown said.
The poll was conducted during the time that FitzGerald unveiled his first campaign TV ad.
Kasich is maintaining a double-digit lead over FitzGerald among Ohio voters with 48 percent of them preferring Kasich to 36 percent supporting his challenger, according to the poll released Wednesday.
This compares to a 50–35 percent Kasich lead in a May 14 survey.
Kasich enjoys large margins among men (53-31 percent), Republicans (92-2 percent) and 47-28 percent among independent voters
Kasich’s 46 percent favorability rating is little changed from May.
The survey of registered voters was conducted from July 24-28 and has a margin of error of +/- 2.7 percentage points.