Posted on 10/26/2024 11:02:53 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Twelve years ago, Senator Sherrod Brown, the Ohio Democrat, took the stage at his election night party in Columbus to celebrate winning a second term. Barack Obama had just carried Ohio for the second time, after emphasizing his administration’s rescue of the auto industry. Mr. Brown wanted to proclaim that success onstage, but he was losing his voice, so his wife, the writer Connie Schultz, took over for him.
As she got to Jeep expanding its Toledo operations and General Motors building the Chevy Cruze at its rejuvenated plant near Youngstown, Mr. Brown started interjecting croaks to make sure she got the details right. “The aluminum is made in Cleveland … the transmission is made in Toledo … the engine is made in Defiance … the airbag is made in Brunswick.”
I thought about that moment often while on the campaign trail in Ohio this month. Mr. Brown is running for re-election again. But the political landscape is much changed. Ohio is no longer a presidential battleground. G.M. no longer makes the Cruze — the Lordstown plant where it was assembled closed in 2019. And Mr. Brown, who won his last two races by five and seven points, is in a tight race against a car dealership magnate named Bernie Moreno.
Mr. Brown and a dwindling band of Democrats in Ohio are still making the case for a certain kind of Democratic Party — one that cares about the working class, that invests in their towns and factories and values the manufacturing jobs that power the nation. That case should have become easier to make of late. Over the past four years, the Biden administration has championed huge investments in renewable energy and computer chip production; two new Intel plants are under construction near Columbus...
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I hope Sherrod loses hugely.
Remember back in 2018 when we were told that Brown was dead meat because Ohio had voted for Trump in 2016 (after going for Bonzo in ‘08 and ‘12) and was now a deep, dark, crimson “red” state?
Brown survived easily in that anti-Trump year of 2018, against a completely lackluster milquetoast opponent (Jim Renacci), plus Brown outstpent him 2:1 — $28 million to $13 million.
He’s not going to survive nearly so easily this time, but he very well may survive; that’s what “toss up” means and that’s what this race is. Bernie Moreno isn’t nearly such a wet noodle as Renacci was, but if you can buy a Senate seat then Brown is going to do it, and so are numerous other Democrats this year:
Brown is spending almost ONE HUNDRED MILLION this time around. Moreno, by comparison, has chump change to work with. Good thing money alone doesn’t determine the outcome, but it sure doesn’t hurt to have a lot.
I went against my previous opposition to early voting and voted for Moreno and against Brown today.
Nope. He’s on the way out.
Can he survive?
We sure as Hell hope not...lousy libturd.
I hope he survives long enough to give his concession speech.
We should listen to Mitch when he says ‘candidate quality’. Those seats are for 6 years and w can’t mess around. The left doesn’t.
(Waiting for some Antifa nitwit to ass*****ate him...)
Hopefully not.
I did the same.
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