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FitzGerald Says Latest Poll Numbers Not Disheartening

With just five weeks to go before the election, a new Quinnipiac University poll of likely voters shows Republican incumbent Governor John Kasich with a commanding lead over Democratic challenger Ed FitzGerald. The poll has support among likely voters for Kasich at 57 percent, compared to 35 percent for FitzGerald. But FitzGerald says that he’s not completely surprised or disillusioned by the numbers.

FitzGerald on Q poll cut 1 :16 “We’ve always been an underdog in the election. We still are. We have a little bit more than 30 days to go. We’ve got to make our case and keep working hard. I think one of the things that’s consistent in a lot of different polling is that a lot of people still haven’t focused on this election.”

FitzGerald also says that Kasich’s numbers are still very soft, and that the voters he’s talking to don’t agree with Kasich’s positions on major issues. Kasich has outraised FitzGerald five-to-one, and FitzGerald’s campaign has been hampered by controversies, including the tax problems of his first running mate. This was the first poll conducted since the revelation that he didn’t have a valid driver’s license for a decade, which came after a police report from 2012 surfaced showing him parked in the early morning hours in a dark car with a woman he’s not married to.

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