Quinnipiac University is out with a new poll this morning showing Retread Ted Strickland’s favorability sinking for the fourth straight poll.
As more Ohio voters are reminded that Democratic Senate candidate Ted Strickland is the same Ted Strickland that was responsible for more than 350,000 jobs lost and Ohio’s 48th place ranking in job creation, they are remembering why they fired him in the first place.
Retread Ted hasn’t done much this time around to rework his image. In fact, just yesterday Strickland campaigned with Hillary Clinton in Columbus. In March, Clinton attacked coal workers saying, “we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” Now, more than 3 months later, Strickland still hasn’t condemned Clinton’s anti-coal rhetoric.
The stop came days after Retread Ted’s failed apology tour through Appalachia that was launched after Strickland lost the endorsement of the United Mine Workers of America to Rob Portman. The tour didn’t go as planned, yielding editorials from the Wheeling Intelligencer and Belmont County’s Times Leader that skewered Strickland calling him “coal’s foe,” and “not [a] friend.”