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Wednesday, June 15, 2005
It's Tough to Be a DeWine
These days, Ohio's senior Senator Mike DeWine (R) is polling a whopping 44 percent, a difficult position for an incumbent facing reelection in a year. It seems his woes are shared by his son, a Hamilton County Commissioner who ran for the GOP nomination to Congress yesterday, as Howard Wilkerson reports for the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Perhaps the biggest surprise of the early results was the weak showing of Hamilton County Commissioner Pat DeWine, who finished fourth behind Schmidt, McEwen and state Rep. Tom Brinkman Jr.These are strange days in Ohio.
Two months ago, as the race to replace Portman was taking shape, DeWine was considered the odds-on favorite, given his name recognition and the easy access to large amounts of campaign cash, thanks to his father, U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine.
His father's connections paid off - the DeWine campaign raised nearly $1 million. In the last week of the campaign, nearly all of it was spent on TV advertisements attacking McEwen.
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