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...lost to Republican Bob P. Corker.Candidates could edit their profiles created by Facebook administrators, said employee Brandee Barker. Virginia’s Senate winner, Democrat Jim Webb, listed “Faith, Family, Country” as his interests, while the wall of Ohio’s winner, Democrat Sherrod Brown, was filled with birthday wishes from college students. Senate candidates who posted content on their profiles averaged 2,429 supporters, while those who did not had only 429, according to Christine B. Williams, a Bentley College government professor. This pattern also held true for gubernatorial candidates. Facebook lists...
...votes he needed to win a second term in 2004. Democratic Congressman Ted Strickland was elected Ohio Governor over Republican Ken Blackwell, the secretary of state, in a top-of-the-ballot race that both sides expected to drive a Democratic sweep of that bellwether state. And Democratic Congressman Sherrod Brown defeated incumbent Republican Senator Michael DeWine...
...Republican, Mike DeWine, had put up a spot that called into question Democrat Sherrod Brown's record on national security, using a smudged, smoking, slightly distorted image of the World Trade Center terrorist attack. The thrust of the ad was accurate: Brown is a mortal dove who repeatedly voted against increases in the intelligence budget. And the attack had been expected. "Our candidates were really worried about how to counter the Republicans on national security," says J.B. Poersch, executive Director of the DSCC. "It's what worked against...
...Brown responded with a spot that began, "It's sad. Mike DeWine exploiting images of 9/11 to smear Sherrod Brown ..." and quickly pivoted to Brown's favorite issue: [DeWine] supported trade deals with China, even after thousands of lost jobs and the transfer of sensitive military technology ..." Polls show Brown well ahead now-and the ad also had a spillover effect. "Our other candidates saw Brown's success," says Poersch, "and they began to feel confident that they could survive Republican national-security attacks...
...Sherrod Brown (D) v. Senator Mike DeWine (R): This race will say a lot about how both parties will perform at the polls in 2006, and perhaps 2008 as well. That's because there's nothing particularly compelling about the personal stories of either one of these candidates; they're both career politicians - DeWine served in the state senate, the U.S. House and was lieutenant governor, while Brown was a longtime state representative and the Ohio secretary of state...