Ohio Might Not Be Lost to Democrats After All

Can Ohio — a Midwestern state dominated by aging, working-class White voters, where Republicans have a supermajority stranglehold on the legislature — really become a political bellwether and battleground again?

The Democrat who can help make that happen, former US Senator Sherrod Brown, doesn’t like to speculate about the horse-race aspects of national politics. “I'm not a pundit,” he groused during a recent campaign stop. But for many political observers — and, yes, pundits like me with Ohio roots — it’s the talk of the state, since it could have national implications.