Josh Mandel had been planning a run for a couple of years, had a much higher name recognition, then, at the last minute dropped out. Word is that his wife put her foot down and said she would NOT go to DC.
Renacci was not seasoned enough, but he was the guy. He has, according to my sources, “a helluva ground game.” He has walkers everywhere.
He went from 30% name recognition (vs. Brown with 90%) to over 65% in a couple of weeks. Disregard national polls showing him down double digits. My guys on the ground consistently say he is inside of 3. They think the last Trump visit and maybe one more will put him over. Plus, OH has a massive GOP registration edge (300,000 after allocating out all the “indies” based on previous voting patterns).
I figured Brown would be in for a tough race. He is a card-carrying progressive in a state that Trump won handily in 2016. There has been very little polling of that race, and most of it is very old.
Good to see that OH is going to be contested. It really burns me that Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania were not highly contested races. I am hoping for an upset in one of those races.
LS, where did you get the early Ohio numbers? I am curious to keep track.
The word was that she was battling an illness and he then dropped out of the race. He had been planning to run for 6 years in a rematch - he had already ran against him before in 2012 and was married to the same person then without apparently being told she would not go to DC. It is a shame as this time around he was outpolling him.
LS very sad to see Jon James not doing better is there any way he mopight be able to pull this out, he is such an amazing man!!!!