Good grief man, DeWine had some conservative positions we all liked. But he had some muddled, fence-sitting positions, too. What was his value proposition? Brown's was "save the middle class." Not that I agree with Brown of course, but people could remember what he was for. DeWine was outpunched.
There is NO way, if the Ohio voters knew who Sherrod Brown really was that he would have won.
But he's a liar, and the media covered for him.
We're fighting a losing battle against the MSM. Even a conservative area like the one I'm in has a leftist newspaper. There is NO comparison between the two men, and no conservative would ever say there was. In an honest election, DeWine, with all his faults, would win in a landslide. But thanks to the MSM, there's no such thing any more.