OH-Sen: Cincinnati Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld likely running

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We need remember that Barack Obama was "only" an Illinois State Senator when he was elected to the US Senate. That was in a state similar in political size to Ohio.

Obama's opponent imploded fabulously.

Not in the primary.

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Ted Strickland is probably going to end up as the Tommy Thompson of 2016, an over the hill former governor who is running more as a reflection of their state party's horrible bench and will probably lose by somewhere in the mid single digits

The Ohio Democrats don't really have a horrible bench, though.

Who else do they have? Sittenfield is only known locally, and tim Ryan probably will never leave the house

From Wikipedia's page on the 2016 OH senate election:

John Boccieri, former U.S. Representative
Jennifer Brunner, Judge on the Ohio Tenth District Court of Appeals, former Ohio Secretary of State and candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2010
Michael B. Coleman, Mayor of Columbus
Richard Cordray, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and former Ohio Attorney General
Connie Pillich, State Representative and nominee for Ohio State Treasurer in 2014
Betty Sutton, Administrator of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation and former U.S. Representative
Nan Whaley, Mayor of Dayton
Bob Hagan, Member of the Ohio School Board of Education and former State Representative
Joyce Beatty, U.S. Representative
Nina Turner, State Senator and nominee for Ohio Secretary of State in 2014

I don't want Nina Turner anywhere near higher office.