Poll: Obama, Brown favored to beat prospective challengers [View All]

Source: The Columbus Dispatch

Both President Barack Obama and Sen. Sherrod Brown currently beat all their top prospective 2012 challengers in Ohio, a new Quinnipiac Poll shows.

Obama tops three out of four Republicans by double digits, even though Ohio voters are almost evenly divided over whether he deserves a second term.

"Ohio voters may not be wild about President Barack Obama, but at this point they appear to like his potential Republican challengers less, and in some cases a lot less," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, in a statement.

"His middling job and re-election ratings show that there may be a potential opportunity to defeat President Obama in 2012 in Ohio, but for that to occur the GOP will have to nominate a candidate that can capture the public's imagination to a degree not yet evident."

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