One other thing about that race...
Kasich backing Balderson might have kept Balderson in the running. No telling how much that played in.
The one upside there is that the GOP just seem like they have one of the worst "Survival" plans in recent memory. If you are going to run on tax cuts and that the jobs picture is improved, you need to be doing a better version than they have. It's amazing how skeletal their pitch on those improvements has been.