The Ohio Senate Race
The state of Ohio has a population of about 11 million people. It is also considered to be one of the major states that are going to factor in the presidential race. This year happened to be the year when Ohio senator Mike DeWine's term ends. This of course meaning that there would have to be an election. This election for the one of the positions Ohio has in the United States senate. It would also mean that two men, one democrat and one republican, could be that senator. Their names are Mike DeWine and Ted Celeste.
We live in a democracy and we vote for whom we think should do what. These men campaigned for an honorable seat in the senate. Mike DeWine the incumbent, Theodore Celeste, Marvin McMickle, Richard Cordray, Ronald Dickson, Frank Cremeans, Daniel Radakovich, John Eastman, John Mcalister. Every one of these men pored lots of time, effort, and money into their campaigns, but the race really only had two candidates Mike DeWine and Ted Celeste.
The state of Ohio is overwhelmingly democratic, but this republican would not take no for an answer. He went on too win the senate race in 1994 and in doing so became the first republican senator from Ohio in two decades. Mike DeWine was born on January 5, 1947. He was born in the Ohio town of Springfield. Here he was raised and went to Yellow Springs High School. His next education stop was Miami University which is in Oxford, Ohio. There he earned his bachelor degree and graduated in 1969. Following his schooling there he attended Ohio Northern University Law School where he graduated from in 1972.
After college Mike DeWine accepted the job of Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for Greene County. He was only 25 and already on his way to the ...
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...th 2,028,960 votes compared to Ted Celeste's 1,140,534. These results did come in congruence with my prediction but I truthfully thought that Mike DeWine would win by more than a million votes, based on the fact the Ted Celeste just did not have any money for a great campaign, but I did underestimated his democratic connections and really the only reason he got that many votes was because Ohio is overwhelmingly democratic and also his family's record. Overall looking back at both campaigns they were both put together pretty well and this looked as though it would be a great election but after Ted Celeste's fiances fell apart Mike DeWine went into cruise control already having one once before and now again I predict that unless the democrats bring forth a formidable candidate Mike DeWine will be representing the state of Ohio in the Senate for many years to come.
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Rosenberg, Debra. “Michigan’s Day in Court.” Newsweek. 14 Apr, 2003. MSNBC Online. 20 Apr, 2003
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