Why does Ohio like Sherrod Brown when he votes like Elizabeth Warren?

[Arizona Iced Tea]

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Marcy Kaptur would do even better than Sherrod. Gender is not relevant.

It's not gender alone, but Kaptur isn't exactly Warren in terms of policy. It's much harder to win as an outspoken progressive woman everywhere - including Massachusetts - than as an outspoken progressive man, and that can be a difference maker in a state as close as Ohio has always been.

Tammy Baldwin says hello

Tbf Tammy Baldwin has only been up in blue leaning years, when Obama won the state by a likely margin in 2012 and then again in the 2018 wave year when Rs didn't make a serious attempt to beat her. She's favored to win in 2024, but the amount she overperforms Biden by will tell us a lot about her crossover appeal and I think its fair to say it will be less than Brown's.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Because as I said the state elected Socialist Dennis Kucinich too

[MarkD]

This is sort of like asking What does Mary Matalin see in James Carville?
Marriages like that seem utterly inexplicable, but nevertheless they do exist.

[Cyrusman]

It's just incumbency, it's the same way McCain would be favored to win re-election if he was alive and hypotheticaly running in 2024 even if Biden carried AZ by a large amount.

Yes, but McCain had WAY more in common with the politics of his state that Brown. McCain was seen as a moderate, compassionate Republican in a red leaning state. Brown is a very progressive Democrat in a state that has trended hard right for the last 8 years.

Most people don't care about voting record and Brown has 18 years of name rec via incumbency which is all most residents know him for. If it was an open seat, Brown would likely be favored to lose to virtually any R.

You are correct on this and it truly makes me wonder how people approach voting.

[Horus]

It's just incumbency, it's the same way McCain would be favored to win re-election if he was alive and hypotheticaly running in 2024 even if Biden carried AZ by a large amount.

Yes, but McCain had WAY more in common with the politics of his state that Brown. McCain was seen as a moderate, compassionate Republican in a red leaning state. Brown is a very progressive Democrat in a state that has trended hard right for the last 8 years.

Most people don't care about voting record and Brown has 18 years of name rec via incumbency which is all most residents know him for. If it was an open seat, Brown would likely be favored to lose to virtually any R.

You are correct on this and it truly makes me wonder how people approach voting.

Vibes.