Results of SurveyUSA Election Poll #8723

Analysis: In a Republican Primary in Ohio’s 2nd Congressional District today, 4/3/06, incumbent Jean Schmidt defeats former Congressman Bob McEwen 55% to 30%, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted exclusively for WCPO-TV Cincinnati. 11% prefer some other candidate. 4% are undecided. The Primary is in 29 days, on 5/2/06. McEwen gets no more than 36% support in any group. Schmidt won a special election on 8/2/2005 to fill this seat, which was vacated when Republican Rob Portman resigned on 4/29/05.

Filtering: 1,500 adults from Ohio’s 2nd Congressional District were interviewed 3/31/06 – 4/2/06. Of them, 1,371 were Registered Voters. Of them, 740 were Republicans. Of them, 412 were judged to be “likely voters”. Crosstabs reflect Likely Republican Primary Voters.

Asked of 412 Likely Republican Voters
Margin of Sampling Error for this question = ± 4.9%

Looks like cutting and running is working just fine for Congresswoman Schmidt.