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Dayton
Business Journal...
Poll:
Kasich approval up, S.B. 5
support gains
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
A
new poll shows some Ohio voters are
warming up a bit to first-year Gov. John Kasich and toning down their
opposition to Senate Bill 5, the controversial collective bargaining
law that
is a key piece of Kasich’s government reform agenda.
The
poll by Quinnipiac University
shows Kasich has a negative job approval rating of 49 to 40 percent
approval.
But that is an improvement on the 50-35 percent negative rating in a
July 20
survey by the independent polling institute.
The
poll also shows Ohio voters support
the repeal of S.B. 5 by a 51-38 percent margin. That compared to 56-32
percent
in favor of repeal in July. Ohioans will vote Nov. 8 on a referendum,
Issue 2,
to repeal the law passed by state legislators earlier this year and
supported
by Kasich.
“The
governor still has more than
three years left until he faces the voters again, and his numbers are
moving in
the right direction,” Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac
Polling
Institute, said in a release.
S.B.
5 is another story, he said,
noting support for repealing the bill has dropped from a 24-point to a
13-point
margin since July. Backers of S.B. 5 have only six weeks to make up the
difference, although public opinion appears to be moving in their
direction,
Brown said.
“The
referendum on S.B. 5 also is a
referendum on John Kasich,” he said.
Looking
at the elements of S.B. 5,
Ohio voters:
Oppose
58 to 36 percent banning public
employees from striking.
Support
60 to 31 percent replacing
automatic pay increases based on seniority with increases based on
merit.
Oppose
53 to 41 percent eliminating
seniority rights as the sole factor in layoffs.
Support
59 to 35 percent requiring
public employees to pay at least 15 percent of their health insurance
costs.
Support
56 to 33 percent requiring
public employees to pay 10 percent of their wages toward their pensions.
Oppose
54 to 39 percent banning public
employees from bargaining over health insurance.
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