How would the Ohio Senate race turned out if this had happened?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

DeWine would not have had to advertise and would not have started a series of screwups.

I don't recall any major screw-ups coming out of DeWine's camp. 

the ad with the doctored footage of 9.11. That really fuccked DeWien up.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Brown is just as liberal on the war and economics as Kucinich.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Brown is just as liberal on the war and economics as Kucinich.

How do they differ?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Some populist-leaning liberal runs as an indy.

Why? No reason to if they didn't against Brown.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Some populist-leaning liberal runs as an indy.

Why? No reason to if they didn't against Brown.

Brown's rhetoric is much more mainstream than Brown's.  It would be like Ned Lamont challenging Bill Nelson or Tom Carper instead of Joe Lieberman.

OK, but why would a populist-leaning liberal want to play spoiler? That's exactly what Kucinich is and no liberals have a problem with him actually, it'd be swing voters.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Kucinich does have a crackpot reputation (which Brown somehow escapes - underservedly, in my view). Crackpots rarely win statewide races.

Tom Coburn?