Good-Bye DeWine

Mike DeWine & Sherrod Brown

Two polls show incumbent DeWine trailing Democrat Sherrod Brown

In a race once seen as one of the closest Senate contests in the country, two polls released Tuesday show U.S. Rep. Sherrod Brown putting distance between himself and Republican incumbent Mike DeWine.

A poll sponsored by Quinnipiac University in Connecticut showed Brown leading 53 percent to 41 percent among likely Ohio voters.

A similar poll conducted by the University of Cincinnati -- the Ohio Poll -- finds Brown with a 7-percentage-point lead over DeWine, 52 to 45.

The good news is that the people of Ohio have finally awakened. While the bad news still is, they should have been awake during 2004 and we wouldn't have the problems we have today.