Mr. MARK NAYMIK (Reporter, Cleveland Plain Dealer): I saw a very energized Democratic Party ticket led by the gubernatorial candidate and a colleague of U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown.
Mr. NAYMIK: Well, the backdrop is that in Ohio we've had our governor, Bob Taft, who has faced one of the lowest approval ratings in the history of Ohio in part because of his own ethics problems as well as Washington's problems.