A Nightmare of a Congressional Race in Ohio’s 2nd District

• By Stuart Rothenberg
• Roll Call Contributing Writer
• Feb. 4, 2008, Midnight

Every so often, I come across a great House race, such as the 2000 Michigan open-seat race where voters were lucky enough to be able to choose between Mike Rogers (R) and Diane Byrum (D). Those voters couldn’t lose, since both candidates clearly deserved to be in Congress. (Rogers won that race by 111 votes out of almost 300,000 cast.)