Which U.S. Senator is furthest ideologically from his/her state?

[Rob]

Coleman.

Perhaps, something tells Brown that in a good year for the GOP, he'll be out on his arse.

Brown is a ferocious campaigner, and he'll be tough to dislodge as an incumbent. If the Republicans get their own "2006" in six years, he'd be in trouble; but he'd hold on. After all, what will they attack him on? Everyone in Ohio knew that he supported queer marriage, mandatory sodomy, live-birth abortions, Islamic terrorism, and so on... they voted for him anyway.

His economic positions are very popular in Ohio, and that will keep him in office.

[Rob]

Brown is a ferocious campaigner,

So is Santorum.

True. Note that Brown ran better than Santorum ever did, though; he won 56 percent against a two-term incumbent. Santorum got only 52 percent against an underfunded joke candidate in 2000 and won 49 percent in the year of Republican Revolution.

He's probably as partisan as Santorum, but his economic views put him closer to the mainstream of his state than Rick ever was.