This is how Democrats Can Win in the Midwest: Sherrod Brown's Victory Speech in Ohio

Excerpts: ‘When we fight for workers, we fight for all people.’

As progressives, we know you build the economy from the middle out, by putting people first, by rewarding their work, not by cutting taxes for the rich.

This is our America: we will never give up the hallowed ground of patriotism to the extremists. I repeat. We will never ever give up the hallowed ground of patriotism to the extremists — at the Statehouse and in the White House.

My mother taught Bob and Charlie and me about the role of the church in our community. It’s the same role journalists play in a free society: comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. To us, you have never been, you never will be, enemies of the people.