Former three-term Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) has told state labor leaders that he intends to run for the Senate, this time against incumbent Republican Sen. Jon Husted.
Brown first won a Senate seat in 2006 by defeating then-incumbent senator and future two-term Gov. Mike DeWine. Brown remained popular even as the state slowly shifted to the right, and won reelection handily in 2012 and 2018. Democrats hope he can reverse the party’s dwindling fortunes in the Buckeye State.
I’m skeptical. The state known politically as the “bellwether state” for a century has been anything but in recent cycles.
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Brown’s victory in 2012 over then-Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel should be viewed through the lens of former President Barack Obama’s crushing defeat of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney that
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