I fear he would not win. He might be competitive in early polling but now he has the loser stink about him (as much as I love him). It’s hard to get past that voters just said no to him (like Martha McSally and Russ Feingold and many recent others).
I fear he would not win. He might be competitive in early polling but now he has the loser stink about him (as much as I love him). It’s hard to get past that voters just said no to him (like Martha McSally and Russ Feingold and many recent others).
And Gov. DeWine got to his position after previously having served two terms as US Senator, before losing to Brown. He's also been Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and a US House member.
This really speaks to how empty the Dem bench is of populist liberals in places lik OH.
Brown will be 74 in 2026. The idea that we don't have anyone who fits his profile but is like 20-30 years younger is pretty disconcerting. More than anything Dems need to aggressively find liberal working class populists and get them to run for lower level offices.
95% agreed. While it is waaaaay too early to be predicting 2026 midterm elections, they don’t typically go well for the party in power. Especially for Trump bc he’s about to do a bunch of crazy shit. Brown can win in a good year and we’ve seen him do it three times.
The 5% I’m hesitant on is running losers. It’s not a plus, that’s for damn sure. When you’re done, you’re done. But, OH isn’t the type of state where we can let a bunch of local Dems fight it out in a primary and then the national Dems have to decide if the winner is worth the investment. We need someone donors think can win from Day 1 otherwise it turns into some 10-to-1 money blow out and we lose by 15%.
Unless OH Dems have some secret amazing politician we don’t know about, seems like Brown is the best chance we’ve got.
I fear he would not win. He might be competitive in early polling but now he has the loser stink about him (as much as I love him). It’s hard to get past that voters just said no to him (like Martha McSally and Russ Feingold and many recent others).
He lost a state race before and came back. Tim Ryan lost also and has never won a state race. Name me someone who would be stronger.
Lest we forget it took John Glenn THREE attempts to win statewide in the Buckeye State. This is hardly unusual there.
Flashback to 1974 BTW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3gThGnavc0
And Gov. DeWine got to his position after previously having served two terms as US Senator, before losing to Brown. He's also been Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and a US House member.
This really speaks to how empty the Dem bench is of populist liberals in places lik OH.
Brown will be 74 in 2026. The idea that we don't have anyone who fits his profile but is like 20-30 years younger is pretty disconcerting. More than anything Dems need to aggressively find liberal working class populists and get them to run for lower level offices.
Tim Ryan is the closest. Maybe if guys like Joe Schiavoni want to come back to politics
Exactly. They won’t be able to win over a lot of lower middle class voters until they at least rhetorically pay homage to economic populism.
95% agreed. While it is waaaaay too early to be predicting 2026 midterm elections, they don’t typically go well for the party in power. Especially for Trump bc he’s about to do a bunch of crazy shit. Brown can win in a good year and we’ve seen him do it three times.
The 5% I’m hesitant on is running losers. It’s not a plus, that’s for damn sure. When you’re done, you’re done. But, OH isn’t the type of state where we can let a bunch of local Dems fight it out in a primary and then the national Dems have to decide if the winner is worth the investment. We need someone donors think can win from Day 1 otherwise it turns into some 10-to-1 money blow out and we lose by 15%.
Unless OH Dems have some secret amazing politician we don’t know about, seems like Brown is the best chance we’ve got.
Abraham Lincoln lost multiple races; just sayin'
I disagree with the entire post here