As the story goes, sherrod brown was the beneficiary of rino tomfoolery. In 1992 the R establishment in Ohio wanted mike dewine to run for Howard metzenbaums senate seat in 1994, but conservative 6 term congressman bob McEwen had a leg up in that prospective race. So the 1992 redistricting pitted McEwen against another R incumbent, in the primary in a new district that ended up favoring democrat Ted strictland, who won the general by a small margin. Thus getting McEwen out of the way for mike dewine, who ended up being very squishy on several issues, and losing in 06 to sherrod brown. It was dewines squishyness that caused the loss as much as anything else. So we gave away two safe house seats to a dem who rode it to the governors mansion so we could avoid a conservative senator who would have likely defeated sherrod brown. Then a few years later pat dewine (son of mike) spent a million bucks mostly sliming McEwen in a failed attempt to get portmans seat, which ended up barely going to Jean Schmidt over mcewen thanks to dewines million bucks, which earned him 4th place.