Why hasn't Tim Ryan run for the Senate in Ohio vs the sleazy Rob Portman? Is Ohio that red?

[riverine]

2016 Portman 58% vs Ted Strickland 37%

2010 Portman 57% vs Fisher 39%

Why is Portman so popular in Ohio?

[CincyDem]

1. Both Strickland and particularly Fisher were very weak candidates IMHO.

Both of these elections were old (or really old) schools dem vs a young (looking) republican buck.

[we can do it]

2. I think Ryan has a bit of an ego problem.

[irisblue]

3. He is a Koch Brothers wholly owned politician

They cheerfully will invest multiple millions in Portmans' campaigns. His base is more southern Ohio, Cincinnati area, strong family roots.

Ryan isn't an especially popular member of the Ohio Dem party, his district is the one that the ApricotHellbeast turned red purple in northeast Ohio & his district is the one that the GOP will eliminate after the next census.


I strongly suspect he's running to get a post cong rep TV pundit career or thinktank job

[True Blue American]

4. We are getting a committee

To redo the Districting in 2021. The law was passed overwhelmingly by voters..

Gym Jordan is the one who better worry. His pretending he knew nothing about sex abuse for 7 years has not gone away.

[blueinredohio]

5. He has a large base here in northwest Ohio.

Election results showed Portman won the counties around here by seventy percent. He's owned by Koch and the NRA.

[irisblue]

6. You mean Portman right?

[blueinredohio]

7. Yes,Portman. Sorry for not explaining.

[NewJeffCT]

8. Who could challenge Portman in Ohio?

He's not up for re-election until 2022.

[riverine]

15. question was past tense

I am irked with the Senate makeup of GOP +3.

A Hagan win, a Nelson win and maybe a pickup in OH or PA and there is no Kavanaugh.

[HughBeaumont]

9. Slowhio is garbage.

How garbage?

The motherfucker in cheat won this state by a greater margin than DUBYA did. We're now as deep red as TEXAS is.

Serial Dubya Rubberstamp Mike Dewine, a 71-year-old uninspiring fossil of a pro-lifer, was our Senator, Attorney General and now our governor. He's also the reason 11 year olds are going to be forced to have rape babies. He beat out Rich Cordray, a non-aggressive Dem who was a top consumer financial watchdog. Dewine's campaign attacked him until the cows came home with half-truths and outright falsehoods. This is a technique that for some reason always works for Republicans but never for Democrats.

Sherrod Brown, an unabashedly pro-worker and pro-union progressive, BARELY won re-election over borderline criminal with mob ties Jim Renacci, who wasn't even liked by his own party.

This state is Columbus, Cleveland and parts of Cincinnati surrounded by The Red Sea. Horribly religion-poisoned and churchy, very anti-choice, incredibly racist and identifies wholeheartedly with the wealthy that stomp them.

[StarfishSaver]

10. No.

[irisblue]

11. Brown won by 6%

Source--https://www.statenews.org/post/us-sen-sherrod-brown-beats-jim-renacci-wins-third-term-one-few-bright-spots-democrat

Yeah I wish he'd done better.

"This state is Columbus, Cleveland and parts of Cincinnati surrounded by The Red Sea" is true IMO

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. So sorry. The devil has a 46% approval there...which

is totally insane. Although might be winnable since they might not see the need to rig again? Half serious.
https://morningconsult.com/tracking-trump/

[HughBeaumont]

13. It's horrible . . .

It makes almost as little sense as supposedly pro-union West Virginia not delivering ONE blue county in 2016.

It proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Republican voters are all about recognizable BRANDS. Why else would they nominate and elect a labor-welching and massively corrupt CEO if they didn't recognize his name?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. Doesn't it seem like every state is so different now? Or

maybe we just are exposed to more info. In TX, I think the key is "just don't be trump" meaning be decent and act with dignity. On the flip side, tons of low infos, if they have a job, and their families do too, boom, don't care about anything else.

What do you think about Ryan? He's short on $$, A VP?

Did you see this on Ohio voters?
https://www.msnbc.com/am-joy/watch/ohio-voters-on-biden-vs-trump-and-2020-democratic-field-1459776067849

[Turin_C3PO]

16. I remember when West Virginia was reliably Democratic.

They used to know who buttered their bread. Same with Iowa. It’s crazy how they’ve fallen for Republican bullshit.

[riverine]

17. yes, Jay Rockefeller and Tom Harkin Senate seats

now filled with retrovirus GOP.

[Buckeyeblue]

18. I'm from Ohio but live in Michigan now

I was back in my hometown (between Dayton and Columbus) this past weekend. I couldn't believe the way the place at deteriorated. I told my wife that the place has turned into Kentucky.

[JI7]

19. young people leave the state giving older right wing types more influence

same happening in iowa.

and in Florida old people are moving in becsuse of low taxes.

but in the other hand Georgia, north Carolina, and Texas are moving towards Democrats with more minorities moving in and getting involved in the voting process.

[Turin_C3PO]

20. I think I saw somewhere that

even young white voters in Georgia and Texas are voting more Democratic than before. I could be wrong.