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Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is leading Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) by four points among likely voters in Ohio in the race for president, a poll by SurveyUSA shows.

The poll also showed state Treasurer Richard Cordray (D-Pleasant Twp.) leading in the race for Attorney General, and voters leaning toward voting down Issues 5 and 6.

Obama recieved 49 percent support among likely voters in the poll, compared to 45 percent for McCain. Respondents choosing "other" came in at 4 percent, with 3 percent undecided.

SurveyUSA identified 648 likely voters in the poll, with a margin of error of +/- 3.9 percentage points.

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell: Getty Images PhotoThe campaign of U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell pushed out its third internal poll of the campaign this afternoon, this one showing its candidate up 17 points over Democratic opponent Bruce Lunsford.

The survey of 900 “likely voters” conducted by long-time McConnell pollster Jan van Lohuizen of Voter/Consumer Research shows the incumbent up 52 to 35 percent over Lunsford.

The release of the poll comes on the heels of recent public approval polling on McConnell (R-Louisville) conducted by SurveyUSA that found him dipping to a 44 percent approval rating – down 13 percent from a May measurement and tying a low in that firm’s polls on the four-term senator.

The McConnell-commissioned poll finds a brighter scenario for the incumbent, with a memo released by the campaign indicating 52 percent have a “favorable impression” of McConnell and 33 percent have an “unfavorable impression” – numbers nearly mirroring the election polling.

The newest numbers from the polling firm SurveyUSA show former U.S. Rep. Anne Northup (R-Louisville) taking two more points off the lead of incumbent U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Louisville) in the race for Kentucky’s 3rd Congressional District.

A poll of 646 “likely” voters found Yarmuth leading Northup 53 to 45 percent, with just 2 percent “undecided.”

The eight point lead for Yarmuth is down from a 10-point margin the incumbent held in figures released by SurveyUSA in late July and almost half of the seventeen point margin shown in numbers from the same firm released in early June.

New poll data from SurveyUSA provides more evidence to the school of thought that presumptive Republican presidential nominee and U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is holding a large lead in the Bluegrass state.

Gelling with earlier results from Research 2000, the SurveyUSA poll shows McCain with a 55 to 37 percent lead over presumptive Democratic nominee and U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill).

Research 2000 put McCain up by 21 over Obama, according to data collected in late July.

Around the same time period, however, a Rasmussen Reports poll showed Obama on the uptick and cutting McCain's lead to ten points, leaving some questions open about where the state stood.

SurveyUSA's data showing the 18 point lead for McCain is their latest from the firm on the state's presidential race since a June 12 poll showed McCain with a 53 to 41 percent lead.

The latest data - collected from August 9 to 11 - measures sentiment from 636 "likely voters" from across the state. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percent.

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Louisville) is maintaining a double-digit lead over his rival in Kentucky's Senate race, Bruce Lunsford (D-Louisville), according to a new poll from SurveyUSA. 

A poll of 636 "likely voters" conducted from August 9 to August 11 shows McConnell with a 52 to 40 percent lead over Lunsford - a lead largely in line with other recent polls.

The new SurveyUSA numbers show a dramatic change in the race from the last poll conducted by the New Jersey-based firm, which gave McConnell just a four point lead in June, at 50 to 46 percent.

The number of respondents indicating they were "undecided" jumped from four to eight percent between the two polls.

In the first public poll in the race released since a surprising Rasmussen Reports measurement gave Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Bruce Lunsford a five point lead over incumbent Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, SurveyUSA is showing McConnell with a four point lead - a gap equal to the margin of error for the poll.

McConnell hits the 50 percent support mark in the new poll of 626 "likely" voters by the New Jersey-based firm. Lunsford trailed the incumbent, coming in with 46 percent.

Just four percent of respondents were "undecided."

The numbers offer a stark contrast to both the Rasmussen figures - giving Lunsford a 49 to 44 percent lead - and an internal McConnell campaign poll showing the Senate Majority Leader up 11 points, at 50 to 39 percent.

While the election is nearly five months away, a new SurveyUSA poll is showing former U.S. Rep Anne Northup (R-Louisville) seventeen points behind incumbent U.S. Rep John Yarmuth (D-Louisville).

The poll - commissioned by Louisville's WHAS television station - gives Yarmuth 57 percent support over the 40 percent garnered by the woman he defeated to take the seat in 2006.

In that 2006 race, Yarmuth beat then-incumbent Northup by just three points, 51 to 48 percent.

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is an Ohio native whose father, John Gilligan, served as Governor, but she wouldn't boost Barack Obama much in Ohio as a Vice Presidential candidate, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted earlier this month for WCMH-TV in Columbus and WCPO-TV in Cincinnati.
Among Ohio voters, an Obama/Sebelius ticket and a GOP slate of John McCain and Mike Huckabee each win 42%. Statistically, Sebelius boosts Obama by about the same percentage as Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and Chuck Hagel, an anti-war Republican Senator from Nebraska.
Actually, the Vice Presidential pick that helps Obama most is ex-Senator/'04 VP candidate John Edwards. The poll didn't include Gov. Ted Strickland, who enjoys a 54%-39% approval rating among Ohio voters.

With exactly a week to go before Kentucky's primary election day, Democratic Senate candidate and Louisville businessman Bruce Lunsford has a sizeable lead over the other six candidates in his bid to secure his party's nomination to take on incumbent Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Louisvile) in November according to two new polls.

A new poll by the New Jersey-based firm SurveyUSA finds Lunsford sitting on an eighteen point lead over his nearest competition, Louisville businessman Greg Fischer. Lunsford holds a 41 to 23 percent advantage over Fischer of the May 20 primary. A Lexington Herald-Leader poll released yesterday evening shows Lunsford up twenty points over Fischer, with a 43 to 23 percent lead.

New figures from the New Jersey-based polling outfit SurveyUSA show Bruce Lunsford still holding a sizeable lead in the Kentucky Democratic Senate primary while Senator Hillary Clinton maintains a huge margin over Senator Barack Obama in the Commonwealth.

As the attention of the nation turns now to the Bluegrass state for its May 20 primary, Senator Clinton's margin over Obama sits at 34 points, according to the latest SurveyUSA/WHAS poll of 595 "likely voters."

Clinton collected 62 percent support among respondents to Obama's 28 percent.