A recent poll found that even though Governor Ted Strickland enjoys high approval ratings in Ohio, the majority of Ohioans don't think he would make a qualified vice presidential candidate.
The poll, conducted by the Quinnipiac University polling institute, asked if voters would be more likely to vote Democratic if Strickland were on the ticket.
Only 13 percent of Ohio voters, including 20 percent of Democrats, said they would be more likely to vote for a Democratic candidate.
Only 29 percent said they thought Strickland was qualified enough to be a vice president.
This is despite another Quinnipiac poll released Tuesday that showed that Strickland is enjoying an all-time high approval rating of 61 percent.
Strickland, who has said publicly that he is not interested in being a vice presidential candidate, has nonetheless been mentioned repeatedly as a possible candidate.
Strickland is seen as a moderate Democrat and Ohio is considered to be an important stop on the road to the White House.
"I don't think that it is likely ... that either a Democrat or Republican will be successful without being successful in Ohio," Strickland told the "Columbus Dispatch" on Nov. 9.
The telephone poll of 1,231 registered Ohio voters from Nov. 6 through Sunday has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.
