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2010 Ohio Elections
The Ohio general elections, 2010 were held on November 2, 2010, throughout Ohio. Primary elections took place on May 4, 2010. Federal representatives United States Senate In the Democratic primary on May 4, 2010, current Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher defeated current Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner. On November 2, Republican Rob Portman, who has served in two federal cabinet positions and as a member of the U. S. House of Representatives defeated Fisher as well as Eric W. Deaton of the Constitution Party and Dan La Botz of the Socialist Party. Portman replaced Republican Senator George Voinovich, who retired from office after his second term expired. United States House of Representatives All of Ohio's eighteen seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2010. State executive branch Governor and Lieutenant Governor Incumbent Democratic Governor Ted Strickland ran for reelection to a second term in office. His running mate was Yve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohio
Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the west, and Michigan to the northwest. Of the 50 List of states and territories of the United States, U.S. states, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 34th-largest by area. With a population of nearly 11.9 million, Ohio is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, seventh-most populous and List of U.S. states and territories by population density, tenth-most densely populated state. Its List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities in Ohio, most populous city is Columbus, Ohio, Columbus, with the two other major Metropolitan statistical area, metropolitan centers being Cleveland and Cincinnati, alongside Dayton, Ohio, Dayton, Akron, Ohio, Akron, and Toledo, Ohio, Toledo. Ohio is nicknamed th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike DeWine
Richard Michael DeWine ( ; born January 5, 1947) is an American politician and attorney serving as the 70th List of governors of Ohio, governor of Ohio since 2019. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he served as the 50th Attorney General of Ohio, attorney general of Ohio from 2011 to 2019, in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 1991, and in the U.S. Senate from 1995 to 2007. DeWine is a native of Yellow Springs, Ohio. He graduated from Miami University with a bachelor's degree in 1969 and earned a Juris Doctor from Claude W. Pettit College of Law, Ohio Northern University College of Law in 1972. After graduation, DeWine worked as an assistant prosecutor for Greene County, Ohio, Greene County and was elected county prosecutor, serving one term. He continued his political career in the Ohio Senate in 1980. He served as a United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative from 1983 until 1991. In 1991, he was sworn in as the 59t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Boyce
Kevin L. Boyce (born October 5, 1971) is an Americans, American politician and a member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party who currently serves as President of the Franklin County, Ohio, Franklin County Board of Commissioners. Formerly, he was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the 25th District from 2012 to 2016, a member of Columbus City Council, and was the 47th Ohio State Treasurer from 2009 to 2010. In the March 2016 Democratic Partisan primary, primary election, Boyce was selected as the Democratic nominee to run for incumbent Paula Brooks (politician), Paula Brooks' seat on the Franklin County, Ohio Board of Commissioners in the 2016 general election. Boyce ran for, and was elected to a second term in 2020 and a third term in 2024. Education Boyce graduated from East High School (Columbus, Ohio), Columbus East High School in 1990. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Toledo in 1995 and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Mandel
Joshua Aaron Mandel (born September 27, 1977) is an American politician who served as the 48th treasurer of Ohio from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he previously was the Ohio State Representative for the 17th district from 2007 to 2011. He was the unsuccessful Republican challenger to Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown in the 2012 U.S. Senate election. In 2016, Mandel announced his intention to challenge Brown again in 2018, but later withdrew from the race. In 2022, he ran again for the Senate, but lost the primary nomination to future Senator (and later Vice President) JD Vance. Some media outlets have characterized Mandel as far-right. Early life and education Mandel was born to a Jewish family on September 27, 1977, in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Rita (née Friedman) and Bruce Mandel. Mandel's maternal grandfather, Joe, is originally from Poland and is a Holocaust survivor, while his maternal grandmother, Fernanda, is originally from Italy and was hidd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Earl
Charles R. Earl (born June 6, 1946) is an American politician and former member of the Ohio House of Representatives 80th district from 1981 to 1984 when he declined to seek reelection. A member of the Libertarian Party, he received enough signatures to obtain ballot access and become a candidate for Governor of Ohio in the 2014 election. Early life, education, and family Earl was born in Fostoria, Ohio, a town near Findlay. Charlie attended public schools in Sycamore, Ohio and then enrolled at College of Wooster graduating in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. Later, Earl enrolled at Bowling Green State University graduating in 1992 with a Master of Arts in mass communication but stayed for two more years pursuing doctoral studies. Ohio House of Representatives (1981–1984) With Mike Oxley elected to Congress in a special election following the death of Congressman Tennyson Guyer, Earl was appointed to serve the remainder of Oxley's term in the Ohio House of Represe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tea Party Movement
The Tea Party movement was an American fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party that began in 2007, catapulted into the mainstream by Congressman Ron Paul's presidential campaign. The movement expanded in response to the policies of Democratic President Barack Obama and was a major factor in the 2010 wave election in which Republicans gained 63 House seats and took control of the U.S. House of Representatives. Participants in the movement called for lower taxes and for a reduction of the national debt and federal budget deficit through decreased government spending. It urges the return of government as intended by some of the Founding Fathers. It also seeks to teach its view of the Constitution and other founding documents. Scholars have described its interpretation variously as originalist, popular, or a unique combination of the two. Reliance on the Constitution is selective and inconsistent. Adherents cite it, yet do so more as a cultur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohio Secretary Of State
The secretary of state of Ohio is an elected statewide official in the state of Ohio. The Secretary of state (U.S. state government), secretary of state is responsible for overseeing elections in the state; registering business entities (corporations, etc.) and granting them the authority to do business within the state; registering secured transactions; and granting access to public documents. From 1803 to 1851, the Ohio secretary of state was elected by the Ohio General Assembly to a three-year term. The 1851 Ohio Constitution made the office elective, with a two-year term. In 1954, the office's term was extended to four years. The secretary of state is Election Results, Ohio Secretary of State, elected in even-numbered, off cycle years, (no Presidential elections), after partisan primary elections. List of Ohio secretaries of state See also *Ohio Secretary of State elections *Ohio Attorney General References External links Ohio Secretary of State * {{OHSecretar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryellen O'Shaughnessy
Maryellen O'Shaughnessy is an American Democratic Party (United States), Democratic politician from Columbus, Ohio, and current the Franklin County, Ohio, Franklin County Clerk of Courts. O'Shaughnessy is serving in her fourth consecutive term. Background O'Shaughnessy is a fifth-generation Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area, Central Ohioan. She graduated from Bishop Watterson High School and received a B.A. from The Ohio State University in Journalism. O'Shaughnessy is a fourth-generation funeral director and owner of the O'Shaughnessy Company Funeral Directors, established in 1889. O'Shaughnessy's first campaign for office was in 1992 when she was the Democratic nominee for Franklin County Commissioner. She received 42% of the vote to Republican Dorothy Teater's 58 In 1997, O'Shaughnessy was elected to her first of 3 terms on Columbus City Council. While on Council she was an advocate for transportation, sustainability and the arts. O'Shaughnessy was the top vote getter in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Husted
Jon Allen Husted ( ; born August 25, 1967) is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Ohio since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, Husted served as the 66th lieutenant governor of Ohio from 2019 to 2025 and as the 50th secretary of state of Ohio from 2011 to 2019. Husted represented the 6th District of the Ohio Senate (a portion of Montgomery County) from 2009 to 2011 and was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2001 to 2009. From 2005 to 2009, he served as Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives. He was elected Ohio Secretary of State in 2010 and reelected in 2014. Husted was a candidate in the Republican primary for governor of Ohio in the 2018 election, but later announced that he would instead run for lieutenant governor of Ohio as Attorney General Mike DeWine's running mate. On January 17, 2025, Governor DeWine appointed Husted to fill the vacant U.S. Senate seat created by the resignation of JD Vance, who be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Policy Polling
Public Policy Polling (PPP) is an American polling firm affiliated with the Democratic Party. Founded in 2001 by businessman Dean Debnam, the firm is based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Debnam died in 2024. Tom Jensen serves as the firm's director. In addition to political issues, PPP has conducted polling on comical topics. These include surveys of whether Republican voters believe Barack Obama would be eligible to enter heaven in the event of the Rapture, whether hipsters should be subjected to a special tax for being annoying, and whether Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer. Elections 2008 PPP first entered prominence through its performance in the 2008 Democratic primaries between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The company performed well, producing accurate predictions in states ranging from South Carolina to Wisconsin, many of which featured inaccurate results by other pollsters. After the November election, PPP was ranked by the ''Wall Street Journal'' as one of the two mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Columbus Dispatch
''The Columbus Dispatch'' is a daily newspaper based in Columbus, Ohio. Its first issue was published on July 1, 1871, and it has been the only mainstream daily newspaper in the city since ''The Columbus Citizen-Journal'' ceased publication in 1985. As of November 2019, Alan D. Miller is the newspaper's interim general manager. History The paper was founded in June 1871 by a group of 10 printers with 900 in financial capital. The paper published its first issue as ''The Daily Dispatch'' on July 1, 1871, as a four-page paper which cost 4¢ (¢ in ) per copy. The paper was originally an afternoon paper for the city of Columbus, Ohio, which at the time had a population of 32,000. For its first few years, the paper rented a headquarters on North High Street and Lynn Alley in Columbus. It began with 800 subscribers. On April 2, 1888, the paper published its first full-page advertisement, for the Columbus Buggy Company. In 1895, the paper moved its headquarters to the northeast c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
