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Everybody expects Ohio to be a
battleground come November, with political attack ads on every channel
and phones ringing off the hook with election-related robocalls. Even
though it's only spring, corporate cash is already flooding into the
state as big money looks to unseat one of the most progressive members
of the Senate, Sherrod Brown.
“They
see this race as important to getting a majority in the US Senate
regardless of what happens in the presidential race,” Brian Rothenberg
of ProgressOhio told AlterNet. “Ohio is a swing state in a couple of
ways; one is the presidency but the other is the Senate.”
And Greg Sargent at the Washington Post
noted recently, “In what may come as a surprise to many Democrats, the
Ohio Senate race appears to be the target of more spending by
GOP-aligned outside groups than the [Elizabeth] Warren contest or any
other Senate race in the country.” READ MORE
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