Time: Ohio may be the sleeper Senate race of the midterms

[Omaha Steve]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ohio-may-be-the-sleeper-senate-race-of-the-midterms/ar-AA26mG1r

Story by Philip Elliott • 8h

Let’s call it a Red State Reset.

A raft of klieg-light Senate candidates are driving coverage of Democrats looking to retake the majority in this fall’s elections. Maine, Texas, Iowa, and Alaska all have high-wattage, younger nominees who are raising hopes among party insiders that John Thune won’t be the Senate’s Majority Leader much longer.

But missing from much of the breathless coverage of this year’s Senate map are the pair of understated, gray-haired, grind-it-out baby boomer Democrats running in Ohio and North Carolina—where Donald Trump won three times in a row. Both Sherrod Brown, a former Senator from Ohio, and Roy Cooper, a former North Carolina Governor, are perhaps the only Democrats who have a shot at flipping those particular Senate seats back into the blue column.

Both races are worth attention, but I’m going to focus here on Brown, who is leading in polls in Ohio, which was not too long ago dismissed by Democrats as a lost cause. Now, it may be the lynchpin to Democrats winning the Senate.

FULL story at link.

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[chinchillawikins]

1. Ohiooooo

And if it's mostly candidate-specific, does that suggest Ohio is still fundamentally a red state rather than genuinely competitive?