A new poll from Quinnipiac University is out Monday, and it will surely cause Ohio Republicans to look for their worry beads. In the 2016 U.S. Senate race in the Buckeye State, former Gov. Ted Strickland, who GOP forces have tried to tar and feather early, leads U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, elected in 2010 at the height of the Tea Party storm, 48 – 39 percent.

Maybe even more distressing for national and state Republican leaders is that by a margin of 50-32 percent, Independent voters back Mr. Strickland. At a recent  gathering of Democrats in Columbus, Ted Strickland ticked off a laundry […]