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What Makes Sherrod Brown So Special? Dems Hope To Replicate Senator's Appeal In Bid For ...
What Makes Sherrod Brown So Special? Dems Hope To Replicate Senator’s Appeal In Bid For Portman’s Seat
By Kate Riga | February 16, 2021 9:21 a.m.
Sen. Rob Portman’s (R-OH) surprise retirement announcement in January sent reverberations through the political world. A safe Republican hold suddenly became a potentially competitive race.
But Democratic eagerness was tempered by the fairly dismal recent history in the state: excepting Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), no Democrat has won the governor’s mansion, a U.S. Senate race, or the state’s electoral votes for President since President Barack Obama did so in 2012. President Donald Trump’s back-to-back wins in 2016 and 2020 indicated to many that Ohio is not the swing state it once was.
“The formula for success in Ohio for Democrats is not a secret,” Jonathan Varner, president of JVA Campaigns, a political consultancy in Columbus, told TPM. “You can’t get pummeled in the rural areas, you need to do better than average in the suburbs and you have to turn out your cities.”
“The question is, how do you do that?”
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