Top forecaster: Ohio U.S. Senate race now a ‘Toss Up’

Top forecaster: Ohio U.S. Senate race now a ‘Toss Up’

Cook Political Report shifts Husted-Brown contest toward Dems  One of the nation’s top political forecasters says the U.S. Senate race in Ohio is now a dead heat.  The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan analysis website, this week shifted the race between incumbent Republican John Husted and Democrat Sherrod Brown into the “Toss Up” category.  The website had previously rated Ohio’s race as “Lean Republican.”  Husted, the state’s former lieute…