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GOP knives out after internal polling shows major 'backlash' against OH ad
What happened
AlterNet reports that Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy fell eight percentage points behind Democrat Amy Acton in a private poll commissioned by a Republican group. Acton had led by two points less than 10 days earlier, before Ramaswamy’s attack ad began airing on October 19. The article does not provide the poll’s methodology, field dates, or year, so its findings establish Republican concern—not a settled electoral outcome.
The ad featured Acton’s estranged mother calling her a liar. The public then learned, according to the reporting, that the mother had left…
The skinny
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