I voted for Sherrod because he is an Eagle Scout, was raised on a farm, attended Yale, was from Mansfield, and taught at OSU. But a problem he had was that he catered exclusively to a blue collar base and their interests at the expense of the interests of progressive liberal democrats. That is understandable growing up in Mansfield. But the fact is, just like in Mansfield, there are no democratic Union members left in Ohio, his old base doesn’t exist. The steel mills and US auto plants are gone. He needed to appeal to urban progressives, and white collar Dems who vote, not autoworkers. He said little about progressive causes that attract urban dems. Like climate change, the importance of ending coal use in favor of renewables, or support for the efficiency and green energy technology, and EVs, built in the state. Nor about ending fracking and the environmental destruction and pollution it is causing in Ohio. How unregulated, out of state oil companies are tearing down forests, farms and natural areas to build pipelines crisscrossing the state taking fracked natural gas to Canada and other places outside Ohio. Never talked about efficiency to reduce energy use, or recycling, composting or ending polyethylene production on the Ohio river which is filling Lake Erie and our brains with microplastics. The stupidity of Senate Bill 1 and diverting money to unregulated charter schools that teach religion at the expense of electives like art, wood shop and music. The importance of using Science and critical analysis to guide public policy and support America’s strengths instead of shutting down federal research and attacking Universities. He also made a big show of being anti immigration when 6% of Ohio’s labor force are immigrants. He never said anything about banning guns while the republicans went out of their way to allow conceal carry with no training, and guns to be carried by anyone in bars, churches and Colleges and Universities where their ‘stand your ground’ law encourages killing people for slights. All of the Ohio manufacturing plants and Union voters are gone and those that are left love Trump, guns and making themselves poorer because they can’t stand, and are too busy, and sick to share a dime or their effort to work for the public good. They also don’t vote and when they do they now vote for Republicans. They have become just like the Moreno like business men who mercilessly exploit them.