COLUMBUS — Former Republican presidential candidate John McCain offered his first U.S. Senate endorsement of this election cycle, coming to Ohio to throw his support behind fellow military veteran Josh Mandel in a campaign heavily supported by GOP national interests.
COLUMBUS — The chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party on Wednesday handily beat back a challenge to unseat him in a party squabble with implications for this fall’s presidential election in a critical swing state.
COLUMBUS — Republican hopes to unseat liberal Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio next year are riding on Josh Mandel, a boyish-looking, 33-year-old Marine veteran whose fledgling campaign has been shaken by allegations of questionable campaign cash and ethical lapses — and a broken promise.
COLUMBUS — Ohio’s feisty ex-elections chief announced Friday that he won’t run in 2012 for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Sherrod Brown. Republican Ken Blackwell made his intentions known in an interview with The Daily Caller, for which he’s a columnist, and later in a brief statement on Twitter: “I am not running for the United States Senate.”