IF you are asking me to explain the Ohio senators' behaviors I am clueless too.
Without the national party money (that only comes in presidential years) the Democrat party is pretty weak here. They hold zero statewide offices in the executive branch. I think they still have two of seven supreme court seats, of course these races are "nonpartisan"
You're in Ohio? Where? I was born in Columbus my parents are from Toledo I grew up in Cleveland went to school in Youngstown and my parents now live between Defiance and Findlay. Deshler to be percise! Brothers live in Napoleoan and Dayton!