A little bit of Ohio history:
John Glenn was first elected to be our Democratic Senator in 1974. In 1976 he was joined by fellow Democrat Howard M. Metzenbaum in the Senate chambers. These two served together until Metzenbaum lost his reelection bid to Mike DeWine in 1994. In 1998, Glenn retired and our former governor, George Voinovich won the seat. DeWine and Voinovich served together until DeWine lost his reelection bid to Sherrod Brown in 2006. Now, because Voinovich is retiring the seat is up for grabs and our Lt. Governor, Lee Fisher, wants it.
However, some folks seem to think Lee Fisher's campaign is in trouble. This article on Politico mentions a cash shortage compared to his Republican opponent.
I can speak to that because I had a problem with Fisher's website donation page a few weeks back. I emailed the campaign about the problem though I never heard back from the campaign and Fisher didn't get my money. I tried a second time to donate from the online page and got confused by the number of URL's my browser went through. I'm jackrabbit jumpy about spending my money online so when I did not recognize a URL I closed the page.
Today, I downloaded a form I can fill out and send in with a check.
That said, I hope Fisher gets it together soon. As I see it, the conservative Republicans in the Senate only want to cause trouble and block the Democratic administration. I'd like for Ohio to have the honor of electing a 60th Democrat to the Senate. You can read more about Fisher's campaign troubles here and here.
