Ohio's race for governor has become a slugfest — a fiercely contested, wildly expensive showdown between Republican entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and Democrat Amy Acton, the state's former health director. Why it matters: The election will determine whether Ohio continues its run of Republican leadership or elects a Democrat for the first time since Ted Strickland in 2006. The big picture: Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur and former presidential...

Former senator Sherrod Brown is leading in most polls, but a tidal wave of spending may prop up the struggling incumbent. The very bad news for the GOP: Donald Trump’s record unpopularity means its once-presumed lock on the US Senate…

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Transactions of $100 or less supplied 38.7% of Democrat Amy Acton’s reported September individual-contribution dollars in Ohio’s governor’s race, compared with 29.5% for Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, according to a cleveland.com analysis of state campaign-finance records. Acton also received a larger share of those dollars from contributors with Ohio addresses: 63%, compared ...

Thousands of Warren County voters are getting a head start on Election Day, early data shows. Why it matters: The surge likely reflects heightened interest in Ohio's competitive (and inescapable) races for governor and U.S. Senate. National political issues, the economy and the mail-in voting push may also be contributing to the early rush. By the numbers: Warren County voters had returned over 6,800 mail-in ballots and cast over 10,600 early...

The Ohio Legislative Black Caucus discovered through a recent study that over 600,000 Black eligible voters in the state sat