# What's so great about the Portman campaign? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 23, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-the-portman-campaign/766664 "2016-09-23T19:01:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-the-portman-campaign/766664/21 "2016-09-29T03:22:47Z")
Read post 17 again in its entirety, and tell me why you won’t take my bet. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-the-portman-campaign/766664/22 "2016-09-29T03:48:49Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Could Portman’s coat tails give Ohio to Trump? Trump could win Ohio but it won’t be because of Portman. Portman is actually pretty faceless. I think a polling outfit found Portman near or at the bottom of their list with regards to name recognition a few years ago, and even as of [May](http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2016/05/12/Ohio-Politics-Now-Rob-Portmans-name-recognition-problem.html) 40% of voters had never heard of him. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-the-portman-campaign/766664/23 "2016-09-29T13:57:44Z")
Sounds like Ohio’s voters are being kind of dumb. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-the-portman-campaign/766664/24 "2016-09-29T20:28:06Z")
Put down that broad brush. Bill Clinton had a plurality here both times, and Obama carried it both times. We also have one of the most liberal U.S. senators around. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-the-portman-campaign/766664/25 "2016-10-07T18:52:28Z")
_The Washington Post_ on why Portman is winning: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/10/06/daily-202-how-rob-portman-pulled-away-in-ohio/57f598f2e9b69b0592430201/?tid=hybrid\_collaborative\_1\_na](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/10/06/daily-202-how-rob-portman-pulled-away-in-ohio/57f598f2e9b69b0592430201/?tid=hybrid_collaborative_1_na) ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2016, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-the-portman-campaign/766664/26 "2016-10-08T01:44:23Z")
That’s a great article, thanks. Meanwhile, here in Missouri Trump is up by ten while the GOP candidate for governor, a former Navy SEAL, is down by 16. I find that one much harder to comprehend than the Portman deal (not that I’m complaining, since Hillary doesn’t need Missouri and we Missourians need a Democratic governor to be a check on the heavily Republican legislature). But who are these people, this huge group of voters, who plan to split their ticket in the opposite way as is usually seen: voting Trump at the top but Democratic below? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-so-great-about-the-portman-campaign/766664.md?page=1)