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Ohio Governor John Kasich Getting Hammered in Latest Ohio Poll

By The Pullins Group LLC

From their presser:

Cincinnati, OH--The latest Ohio Poll finds more Ohioans disapprove than approve of Governor John Kasich?s performance as governor. The latest Poll also asked Ohioans their opinions on Ohio?s budget situation.

These findings are based on the latest Ohio Poll, conducted by the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Cincinnati between March 1 and March 9, 2011.

KASICH?S FIRST OHIO POLL APPROVAL RATING AT 40 PERCENT

The latest Ohio Poll finds 40 percent of Ohio adults approve of John Kasich?s performance as governor, 47 percent disapprove and 13 percent neither approve nor disapprove. 

Kasich?s approval rating is lower than the initial gubernatorial approval rating recorded by the Ohio Poll for former Governors Strickland (68%), Taft (49%) and Voinoich (61%). Kasich?s rating is higher than the initial approval rating of former Governor Richard Celeste (32%).

As is often the case, Ohioans are sharply split along partisan lines when it comes to ratings of their governor. While far more Democrats disapprove (63%) than approve of Kasich?s performance (25%), far more Republicans approve (65%) than disapprove (26%). More independents disapprove (52%) than approve (30%) of Kasich?s performance at the present time.

Kasich?s approval rating for handling the economy (38%) is similar to his overall approval rating.

OHIOANS WEIGH IN ON STATE BUDGET

Ohio adults were asked their opinions about how Governor Kasich and the Ohio General Assembly should balance Ohio's budget. Fifty-three percent of Ohio adults say they would like to see Ohio's budget balanced through ?a combination of tax increases and state spending reductions,? 35 percent would like to see the budget balanced through ?reductions in state spending on programs and services,? six percent would like to see ?state tax increases? and six percent ?don?t know.?

Those Ohioans who would like to see the state budget balanced through reductions in state spending on programs and services (either alone or in combination with tax increases), were next presented with a series of areas of the Ohio budget and asked in which of those areas they would like to see spending reduced.

These survey respondents most frequently identified ?funding for local government? (33%) as the area they would most like to see spending reduced. An additional 15 percent say they would like to see spending reduced for ?prisons and public safety,? 13 percent say ?colleges and universities? and eight percent say ?health care for the elderly/those with lower incomes.?

*We ask users to properly attribute this copyrighted information to the ?Ohio Poll,? sponsored by the University of Cincinnati. The name, ?Ohio Poll,? is registered with the Ohio Secretary of State.

Full post as published by The Pullins Report on March 14, 2011 (boomark / email).