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Thursday, May 19, 2011
Screening committee recommends Coley for Senate seat
A screening committee has recommended Rep. Bill Coley, R-Liberty Twp., to fill the 4th District state Senate seat, Senate President Tom Niehaus, R-New Richmond, said Thursday in a press release.
The full Republican caucus is expected to go along with the pick and the new member is to be sworn in next Tuesday, May 24, said Niehaus.
The district includes all of Butler County.
“He understands the issues facing Butler County and the rest of the state,” said Niehaus. “And he’s not afraid to make the tough decisions to get Ohio back on a path to economic growth.”
Coley, 50, is serving his fourth term in the House. There were four other Republican candidates: state Rep. Tim Derickson of Oxford; Mark Haverkos of West Chester; Stuart Locke of Middletown and Michael McCabe of Fairfield Township.
The vacancy was created by the resignation of Sen. Gary Cates, R-West Chester, who is taking a job as senior vice chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents.
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TweetBlackwell leads GOP pack to challenge U.S. Sen. Brown; Obama gets little bin Laden bounce
Ken Blackwell, the 2006 GOP candidate for governor and former secretary of state and treasurer, emerged as the leading candidate for the 2012 U.S. Senate nomination to take on Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday.
The poll also found that Democratic President Barack Obama got almost no bounce in his approval rating with Ohio registered voters after the successful raid that resulted in the death of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.
In the poll, Blackwell got 33 percent in a GOP primary to 17 percent for Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel and 5 percent for former state Sen. Kevin Coughlin of Cuyahoga Falls. Thirty-four percent were undecided.
In a head-to-head matchup, Brown led Blackwell 44-35 percent.
Brown led Mandel 45-31 percent and bested Coughlin 44-28 percent.
Forty-nine percent approved Brown’s performance in the Senate, while 30 percent disapproved.
Brown begins his campaign in a strong position against GOP challengers, Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a press release.
“But he is not necessarily home free,” added Brown. “He is unable to get 50 percent against any of the three potential challengers, which is the dividing line for incumbents who are overwhelmingly favored for re-election.”
Voters approved Obama’s performance 49-45 percent, a slight improvement from a March survey when 48 percent disapproved and 47 percent approved.
In a trial run against an unnamed GOP nominee, Obama squeaked by 41-39 percent, down from a 41-34 percent lead in March.
Voters were split, 47-47 percent, on whether Obama deserves a second term.
“In Ohio at least, the question of whether there is a ‘bin Laden bounce’ apparently has been answered,”said Brown.
“And the White House can’t be happy with the answer.”
The poll was taken Tuesday, May 10, through Monday, May 16 with 1,379 registered voters. Live interviewers conducted the calls over land lines and cell phones. The margin of error was plus or minus 2.6 percentage points.
For the GOP Senate question, 459 registered Republicans were surveyed, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.6 percentage points.
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