Portman rivals Rubio in 1Q fundraising: 2.35 million.


Not too shabby:

Rob Portman announced today that his U.S. Senate campaign raised $2.35 million during the first three months of 2010 and has $7.6 million cash-on-hand.  More than 5,600 individuals contributed to the campaign during the first quarter, bringing the total number of individual supporters to more than 13,000 – over 80 percent of whom are Ohioans.

Couple that with his polling outside the MoE on the latest Rasmussen and Portman’s having himself a decent quarter here.  As opposed to his Democratic counterparts, who are currently rather busy cutting each other into ribbons over whether or not there’s a whispering campaign going on:

[OH SOS Jennifer] Brunner told The Vindicator during a Friday telephone interview that her criticism is “obviously getting under his skin. I have evidence, but when people who support me tell me these things they’re afraid to let me give their names. There are numerous instances where either he or his wife will say to people that the governor has endorsed [Lt. Gov.] Lee [Fisher]. People won’t come forward because they’re scared.”

Meanwhile, Fisher is bragging about his role in the 172K job loss in Ohio in 2009.

No, really.

Moe Lane

PS: Support Rob Portman anyway. There’s always the chance that the Democrats will wise up and nominate a functional candidate for Ohio Senate.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.


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proudgop (Diary) Monday, April 12th at 10:26PM EST (link)

a necessary evil

Toomey pulled in a big chunk too. Waiting to see how our other candidates did too

Portman is great guy and will be a vast improvement

 

Brunner took off in her "Courage Bus" after..

ladyimpactohio (Diary) Monday, April 12th at 10:37PM EST (link)

canning the OH H/C amend petition after Dem AG Cordray already approved. Lot’s of “courage” there, Jen. And you won’t even advertise where that sorry-looking bus is gonna be so I can go and bring my protest sign “dead voters for Ohio.”
Plus you hammered Fisher about “no Dem endorsements.” Go ahead, Jen. Keep having cupcake parties and coffee klatches with all those women in Oh. And keep fighting with Fisher. Is a sure way to get all the voters behind Portman. Keep at it you two.

We the people tell government what to do, it does not tell us.–Ronald Reagan in his farewell speech

 

Still worried about OH poll numbers

Kyle-MI (Diary) Tuesday, April 13th at 8:58AM EST (link)

While Portman is ahead, he is not in as good a shape as Rubio. For OH Gov., Kasich has also slipped in the polls. As it looks currently, OH will be one of the front lines in the electoral battle. Send money to Portman, indeed.

Don't Pay Attention To Research 2000/Kos Polls...

IJB Tuesday, April 13th at 9:44AM EST (link)

Most of the polls showing Portman and Kasich “behind” are coming from Research 2000/Kos. See RCP about this – Kos’ polls are assuming turnout equivalent to 2008, or better! for the Dems in OH!! Ain’t gonna happen!

OH seems to be the one place where there’s a concerted effort from the Left to put out a bunch of bogus polls to muddy the waters, and confuse people as to what’s really going on. (I’m surprised they’re not trying that in MO as well, but whatever…)

Anyway, while the OH GOP candidates aren’t overwhelmingly ahead, they seem to be pretty consistently ahead in credible polling from firms like Rasmussen…