Sherrod Brown has been in elective office since pretty much the day that he graduated from college. He’s likelier to run for president than to enter the private sector. I also saw a recent poll (as in from this past week) showing Mandel beating Brown, but it was like 39%-38% with a gazillion undecideds, and Brown probably thinks that he can beat Mandel again. I guess that Mandel will have to teach him that that’s not the case.
I think that I’d rather have Mandel running against Brown than I would Tiberi; I know that I’d rather have Mandel than Tiberi in the Senate.
BTW, 24 hours ago, the RATs were holding out hope that they could cut down the GOP Senate advantage to a mere 51-49 with an upset in the LA runoff. Well, tonight they are looking at an almost certain 53-47 GOP Senate. Not only did Republican John N. Kennedy win the Senate runoff in LA (by like 62%-38%), but it was reported that President-elect Trump will name ND RAT Senator Heidi Heitkamp as Secretary of Agriculture. The report also said that Heitkamp’s replacement would be elected in a special election; if true, ND must have changed its law fairly recently (I know that the ND governor was appointing Senators as recently as 1992). In any event, she will be replaced by a Republican in the next few months.
In case you’re wondering about the two LA U.S. House runoffs, conservative Republican Mike Johnson beat the Democrat by 65%-35% in the Shreveport-based CD (the least heavily Republican of the five GOP-held CDs), and conservative Republican Clay Higgins beat RINO Scott Angelle (the sore loser that endorsed the Democrat in the 2015 gubernatorial runoff) in the Lafayette-based CD.
I think that was the poll I saw, too. That’s absolutely awful for Brown to be at 38% as the incumbent, as the undecideds likely break for the challenger. 2018 should be Mandel’s year.