Progress.(Up Front)(Governor Bob Taft)(Brief article)

Good news for Ohio Republican Governor Bob Taft! A recent poll put his approval rating at 16 percent. That may sound low, but it's more than double the 6.5 percent he registered in a Toledo Blade survey last November, just a few months after he was convicted of accepting a golf outing, hockey tickets, and a few other baubles. Perhaps it's that Taft doesn't look so bad next to Tom Noe, the coin dealer and prominent GOP, Buckeye State fundraiser, who was indicted on 53 felony counts relating to the "coingate" seam in which he allegedly stole as ...