Battle ‘10 recently came into possession of a Strickland campaign fundraising email sent to top donors by Strickland consultant Erik Greathouse. You can smell the desperation a mile off. Full text below:
Many have asked me to send around a few bullet points to have regarding some of the recent polling news. While we hate that there is even one poll out there showing the Governor behind — remain VERY confident in our campaign and our plan.
Here are some polling points for you to share:
There is no doubt that this is a very difficult political environment to run in this year
Voters like the Governor, they trust the Governor, but his job approval is down because voters are very anxious and want him to fix things
Public polls are all over the map this year, but generally have Democrats and incumbents in a challenging position
We probably are down a few points right now, but nowhere close to 10 points that was published in today’s Rasmussen Poll
An internal poll done by another statewide candidate in the last two weeks has the Governor down 3%. ∙
In July and August, the Kasich campaign and the RGA spent $2.7 million dollars unanswered – bashing the Governor
The Strickland for Governor campaign just started to engage with voters on TV and we will spend the next 9 weeks defining Kasich and talking about what the Governor has done and will do
The Strickland for Governor campaign has a $3million dollar cash on hand advantage over Kasich and will spend our resources wisely
We have a much superior field and GOTV apparatus. The Ohio Republican Party spokesman basically acknowledged that in a Youngstown Business Journal article today. http://www.business-journal.com/ohio-dems-count-on-doors-not-dollars-p17345-1.htm
The Republicans are banking on riding a wave – we will win because we have a better candidate and superior organization
John Kasich has never had a tough election – Ted Strickland has had multiple tough races and knows how to win them
