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Ohio's Senate Race

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I. The office being sought was the office of the US Senator from Ohio. There are two such positions for the state of Ohio. This post was won by Sherrod Brown in 2006. This past election saw Brown, a Democrat, defend his Senate seat against Republican Josh Mandel in a bitter campaign. Every state has two seats in the United States Senate, for a total of 100 seats. Senators serve terms of six years, and this was the only Ohio Senate seat up for election in the 2012 campaign. Sherrod Brown was the incumbent with Josh Mandel as the challenger. Brown won the seat in 2006, when he defeated the two-term Republican senator Mark DeWine (UPI, 2006). Brown was nominated to run for a second term. The challenger is the race was Republican Josh Mandel. Mandel was and is once again the serving Treasurer for the state of Ohio. In March, 2012, he won the GOP primary race against five other challengers for the right to contest the Senate seat against Brown. Mandel was the best-known of the six challengers, and had strong backing as a "Tea Party" candidate (Guillen, 2012). Brown came into the race with a wealth of experience. Prior to his successful Senate bid in 2006, Brown served in the US House of Representatives, as the Ohio Secretary of State and when challenger Mandel was exiting his mother's womb Sherrod Brown was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives. Not only did the two candidates differ significantly in terms of experience and qualifications but there were distinct

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