I really wish that some of the nonpartisan house race pollsters that we used to see a lot of numbers from, such as SurveyUSA, would get back into the house race polling game.  At any rate, we have two partisan pollsters weighing in on two different House races.  First, Public Opinion Strategies (R) polled Ohio's First Congressional District, where former Congressman Steve Chabot is facing off against the man who defeated him last year, Steve Dreihaus.  Dreihaus narrowly defeated the seven-term Congressman in 2008, in part by clinging to President Obama's coattails in the district, which has a sizeable African American minority.  POS finds that Dreihaus trails Chabot 53%-39%.   This is similar to the lead for Chabot found by a SurveyUSA poll taken for Firedoglake back in January.

Heading north, a poll commissioned by the U.S. Citizens Association, a conservative activist group, finds that Jim Renacci is leading Congressman John Boccieri 47%-35%.  Boccieri voted against the first iteration of health care reform in the House, but voted to pass the final version.  I've obtained the polling script and crosstabs for this poll from the independent polling company that conducted the poll, and nothing jumps out at me as illegitimate -- there weren't many self-identified Independents, but there ended up being slightly more Democrats than Republicans, which may be about right for the district.  Even if you treat this as a partisan poll and discount it four or five points for the Republican, it still is a pretty bad result for Boccieri.

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