Kasich's lead over FitzGerald narrows to 5 points
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The Cincinnati Enquirer
Feb 19, 2014
Gov. John Kasichs lead over Democratic challenger Ed FitzGerald has narrowed to five percentage points, down from a high of 14 points eight months ago, according to the latest poll from Quinnipiac University.
Still, 70 percent of Ohioans in the poll said they hadnt heard enough about FitzGerald, the Cuyahoga County executive, to form an opinion of him. Thats improved 6 percentage points since FitzGerald officially launched his candidacy for governor last spring.
The poll is the first of 2014, when Ohio voters will decide whether to give the Republican Kasich another term in office or whether to elect Democrat FitzGerald instead.
FitzGerald faces a double-edged sword, said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, in a statement. He has not made much headway in the past three months, but it provides him an opportunity to make up ground among the vast number of voters who are unfamiliar with him. MORE