NEW WATERFORD, Ohio — See how they run. Former Sen. Sherrod Brown is running like an old man in a hurry.
"An old man in a hurry" is the phrase Lord Randolph Churchill employed to characterize then-76-year-old William Gladstone, the 19th-century British prime minister whose reputation as a backer of "the masses against the classes" precisely matches Brown's political profile.
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