Poll: Ohioans Want a Democrat for President

From the Dayton Daily's Ohio Politics Blog:

Nearly two-thirds of Ohio adults want to see a Democrat take control of the White House in the November election, according to a new poll released Wednesday, March 12...

A key finding: 59.5 percent of the political independents wanted a Democrat to take over.

Overall, 64.1 percent favored a Democrat, while 95.9 percent of the Democrats and 14.2 percent of the Republicans wanted to see a Democrat take over.

On a related question, 69.1 percent said that regardless of how they planned to vote they thought a Democrat would carry Ohio in November. More than half of the Republicans - 55.8 percent - thought a Democrat would win, while 61.9 percent of the independents and 83.3 percent of the Democrats thought there would be a Democratic victory.

Nearly half of those surveyed - 47.5 percent - said economic issues would be most important in determining their vote for president, nearly double the 24.8 percent who said foreign policy issues such as the war in Iraq would be most important, the poll found.

Of course, whether there's a Democrat left standing by then is another question...

The poll here. One number really stands out: Respondents trusted the Democrats on the economy by a huge margin. Sixty-five percent favored the Democrats on economic issues, versus 31% for Republicans.