Political Action Committee. Now compare this to Mike DeWine who as of August 3, 2000 had made $890,000 in PAC money. This seems a little lopsided but just wait there is more, the letter also shows the money earned by each candidate from outside of Ohio. Mr. Celeste collected about $31,000 and Sen. DeWine made a little more around $605,000. The numbers are just astounding. I mean for a state that has spend more than 8 million dollars on previous senate elections bringing a tenth of a million against Mike DeWine’s couple million is just foolish. If Mr. Celeste thinks he can win the senate just because of his last name he has something coming to him.The election was held November 7, 2000. My guess for the winning candidate was incumbent Mike DeWine. I choose him mainly because Ted Celeste really did not put up to much of an opposition and he was easily going to win. The winner of the Ohio senate race was Mike DeWine. He won with 2,028,960 votes compared to Ted Celeste’s 1,140,534. These results did come in congruence with my prediction but I truthfully thought that Mike DeWine would win by more than a million votes, based on the fact the Ted Celeste just did not have any money for a great campaign, but I did underestimated his democratic connections and really the only reason he got that many votes was because Ohio is overwhelmingly democratic and also his family’s record. Overall looking back at both campaigns they were both put together pretty well and this looked as though it would be a great election but after Ted Celeste’s fiances fell apart Mike DeWine went into cruise control already having one once before and now again I predict that unless the democrats bring forth a formidable candidate Mike DeWine will be representing the state of Ohio in the Senate for many years to come. ...
