With Brown so close, ads will grow

Cleveland Plain Dealer

With less than seven weeks left, Democrat Sherrod Brown has Ohio's senior U.S. senator, Mike DeWine, locked neck-and-neck in a tough election race -- and the intensity, dueling messages and millions of dollars for ads will only grow, political professionals say.

DeWine, a Republican, still can win, but considering his 12 years as a senator and his previous service as Ohio lieutenant governor, his current challenge strikes some as remarkable.

"Certainly the surprise in the poll is that you would have an incumbent United States senator in danger or in jeopardy of losing his seat," said Eric Rademacher, co-director of the University of Cincinnati's Ohio poll.

That poll, surveying 671 likely voters by phone from Sept. 7 through Sept. 17, showed Brown, a congressman from Avon, leading DeWine by four percentage points. The margin of error was 3.8 points

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