United States Senate Race 2010

So Senator George Voinovich is retiring at the end of his current term, after two terms serving in the Senate. While I haven't always agreed with how he's represented my state, one cannot argue the Senator has dedicated his life to working for the people of Ohio with integrity...something of a rarity in today's day and age, or even any age.

That said, now we need to pick a new United States Senator from Ohio to join Sherrod Brown. Neither party has a clear candidate yet...and I haven't heard about any third party candidates throwing their hats in the ring yet. Here's what we have on the platter so far.

Democrats:

Lee Fisher, currently the Lieutenant Governor.

Jennifer Brunner, currently the Secretary of State.

Republicans:

Rob Portman, not currently holding a government position but well experienced at the federal level

Tom Ganley, President and CEO of the Ganley Automotive Group and has never held public office.

I'm not personally seeing any clear leaders...Rob Portman has more experience, but it was all with the Bush Adminstration...and that may very well hurt him if the party is trying to distance itself from those philosophies. Brunner has a higher profile than Fisher, but I'm not sure if that's a help or a hindrance just yet. The primary races should be quite interesting :-)

Rest assured, I'll be watching for developments and doing some looking around!