METZENBAUM, HOWARD M

D · senate · bioguide M000678

FEC candidate id: S4OH00028
Internal id: 852e9a8a-5df0-46d9-b73d-d1123cd69358
Status: challenger

Who this candidate represents (statewide)

Who lives here — American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024), Ohio. Source.

Category	Metric	Value
People	Population	11,810,293
People	Median age	40
Income	Median household income	$71,389
Income	Per-capita income	$40,552
Income	In poverty	13.3%
Income	Unemployed	4.8%
Income	Gini inequality index	0.467
Race	White alone	76.8%
Race	Black alone	12.2%
Race	Asian alone	2.6%
Race	Hispanic or Latino	4.8%
Race	Two or more races	6.5%
Origin	Foreign-born	5.2%
Language	Speaks English only at home	92.0%
Language	Speaks Spanish at home	2.6%
Education	High school or higher	63.6%
Education	Bachelor's or higher	31.5%
Education	Advanced degree	12.2%
Household	Family households	61.2%
Household	Avg household size	2.37
Household	Never married (15+)	33.6%
Housing	Median home value	$214,800
Housing	Median gross rent	$1,034
Housing	Single-family detached	68.8%
Housing	Built before 1940	5.6%
Housing	Overcrowded (>1 per room)	1.5%
Housing	Vacant units	8.1%
Service	Veterans (18+)	6.6%
Health	With a disability	14.4%
Connectivity	Households with broadband	90.1%
Connectivity	Households with no internet	7.4%
Commute	Drove alone	75.1%
Commute	Public transit	1.0%
Commute	Worked from home	13.0%

Cycle financials

Source: FEC weball bulk file (cycle summary). Numbers in USD; 0 = no activity reported.

Cycle	Raised	Spent	Cash on hand	Debts	Indiv. contribs.
1988	$7,312,533	$8,547,545	$221,751	$9,798	$5,839,753
1986	$557,279	$66,439	$1,456,761	$0	$0
1984	$1,078,346	$1,082,881	$965,920	$0	$18,280
1982	$3,384,899	$2,636,596	$0	$0	$0
1980	$7,974	$1,204	$0	$0	$0

Elections

1982 general senate · OH-S — won
1982 general senate · OH-S — won
1988 general senate · OH-S — lost_general
1988 general senate · OH-S — lost_general
1988 general senate · OH-S — lost_general
1988 general senate · OH-S — lost_general
1988 general senate · OH-S — won
1988 general senate · OH-S — lost_general
1988 general senate · OH-S — lost_general

Committees

No committees on file.

Recent votes

No votes on file.

Election prediction

Cycle 2026 · model baseline-v1 · base rate 15.1%

P(win) = 23.1%

Feature	Δ P(win)
Base rate (historical)	15.1%
D (major party)	+10.0%
senate race	-2.0%

Baseline model (incumbency × party × office). Calibration: backtest Brier score is the reference, see npm run db:ingest -- --source=predict-backtest-election. Future model versions must beat baseline Brier on the same held-out cohort or they don't ship.

Connected on the graph

Outbound (25)

date	type	to	amount	role	source
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 1064 — Dayton-Aviation Heritage National Historical Park and Wright-Dunbar National Historic Prese	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 1260 — Federal Land Exchange Facilitation Act of 1987	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 1567 — Regulatory Fairness Act	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 2042 — An Act to authorize the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project, Inc., to construct within the Vie	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 21 — California Desert Protection Act of 1994	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 2199 — American Heritage Trust Act of 1988	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 2445 — A bill to amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Kosciuszko Trail as a study	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 257 — Mineral Exploration and Development Act of 1993	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 261 — A bill to authorize the establishment of a Peace Garden on a site to be selected by the Secr	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 2809 — A bill to amend the National Trails System Act to provide for the study and designation of	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 451 — A bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the appropri	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 488 — Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Technology Competitiveness Act of 1989	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 544 — Multistate Utility Consumer Protection Act of 1994	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	S 684 — National Historic Preservation Act Amendments of 1992	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
—	cosponsor_of_bill	SJRES 59 — A joint resolution to express the sense of Congress that the Federal Energy Regulatory Co	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
1994-02-02	sponsor_of_bill	S 1818 — Ohio & Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor Act of 1994	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1993-05-05	sponsor_of_bill	S 896 — Rangelands Restoration Act of 1993	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1991-03-21	sponsor_of_bill	S 749 — A bill to rename and expand the boundaries of the Mound City Group National Monument in Ohio	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1989-11-21	sponsor_of_bill	S 1958 — Nuclear Facilities Occupational Safety Improvement Act of 1989	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1989-02-23	sponsor_of_bill	S 446 — Price-Anderson Financial Accountability Amendments of 1989	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1989-01-25	sponsor_of_bill	S 247 — State Energy Efficiency Programs Improvement Act of 1990	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1988-06-06	sponsor_of_bill	S 2470 — Steel and Aluminum Energy Conservation and Technology Competitiveness Act of 1988	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1988-03-15	sponsor_of_bill	S 2167 — National Appliance Energy Conservation Amendments of 1988	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1987-07-24	sponsor_of_bill	S 1544 — National Trails System Improvements Act of 1988	—	sponsor	sponsorship
1987-06-17	sponsor_of_bill	S 1382 — Federal Energy Management Improvement Act of 1988	—	sponsor	sponsorship

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