Quinnipiac OHIO Poll Data for POTUS Race

Rudy Still Leads in Ohio; Fred Moves Up Too

The Quinnipiac OHIO poll has been released and has some vrey interesting numbers in it for the presidential race:

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani gets 43 percent to Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's 42 percent in the 2008 presidential race in Ohio, and leads other Democrats by wider margins, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.


Giuliani tops New York Sen. Hillary Clinton 47 - 43 percent, and leads former Vice President Al Gore 48 - 40 percent, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University poll finds. In other general election matchups:
Arizona Sen. John McCain gets 45 percent to Clinton's 44 percent;
Sen. Obama bests McCain 44 - 41 percent;
McCain edges Gore 45 - 42 percent.

While Giuliani leads the Republican pack with 23 percent, followed by McCain at 17 percent, former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson has moved up to 15 percent, a 7-point jump since April 26. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has 11 percent and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has 6 percent.

Rudy still beats every Democrat in the race...and check out these favorable/unfavorable numbers:

Guiliani: 54%-26%

McCain: 45%-28%

Romney: 67% don’t know enough about him to form an opinion

Clinton: 46%-45%

Edwards: 44%-29%

Obama: 42%-34%

Ohioans know Rudy and they like him.

Fred Thompson made some inroads this month in Ohio as he moves up to 15%; up from 8% last month. It looks to me as if Fred took support from Romney and McCain this month as Guiliani's 23% remained unchanged over the month.

The bad news for Fred is that so far, he loses to Hillary, Obama, and Gore...the numbers don't show that it is impossible task for Fred to make up the ground against Obama or Gore, but the Hillary/Fred race has less than 10% left undecided.

Romney is in trouble in Ohio...if 67% of Ohioans don't know enough about him to form an opinion at this point, he's doomed.

UPDATE: LincolnLogsBlog has more analysis.