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altmin said:
If a candidate like Brown can't win under this political situation, then Ohio is a just a lost cause.
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Probably but there is a good argument that Brown is the wrong candidate for the moment - a retread of the past rather than new blood, and he is facing a young candidate who is a product of bro culture.
 
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nycfan said:
Probably but there is a good argument that Brown is the wrong candidate for the moment - a retread of the past rather than new blood, and he is facing a young candidate who is a product of bro culture.
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Jon Husted is a young candidate? He’s 58.

He’s younger than Sherrod Brown. He’s also held elected office since 2001 (Ohio legislature) and has held statewide office since 2011 (Sec’y of State, Lt. Governor, US Senate). The guy defines career politician. He’s not some outsider.
 
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Zoo_View said:
John Husted is a young candidate? He’s 58.

He’s younger than Sherrod Brown. He’s also held elected office since 2001 (Ohio legislature) and has held statewide office since 2011 (Sec’y of State, Lt. Governor, US Senate). The guy defines career politician. He’s not some outsider.
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My bad, I was merging the governors race there. Though in political terms for a US Senate Race, 58 is young.
 
altmin said:
If a candidate like Brown can't win under this political situation, then Ohio is a just a lost cause.
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Of all the large states, Ohio and Florida are the two that have definitely shifted the most to the right over the past decade or so. Ohio was very competitive until Trump carried the state in 2016 (Obama won it in 2012) and it's been turning darker and darker shades of red ever since. From what I've read much of the state's move to the hard right has to do with the sharp decline in population over the past half-century of Ohio's largest cities like Cleveland, Akron, Cincinnati, Toledo, Youngstown, etc. whose factory blue-collar workers used to provide most of the votes for Democrats when they carried the state. As those cities lost population the importance of the GOP-leaning rural areas and small towns and suburbs increased, and many of these depressed urban areas also turned to the right as Trump promised them that he would bring all of their lost manufacturing jobs back.

If Democrats can't find ways to start winning back states like Ohio in Senate races, then it's going to be very, very difficult for them to win a working majority in the Senate ever again. Otherwise at best they'll win maybe 51 or 52 seats and will still be at the mercy of the Fetterman and Sinema and Manchin turncoat types.
 
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