With mudslinging in all directions, Ohio's Republican Senate candidates head for the big finish

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : "The top 20% of earners in the United States pay 82% of federal income tax -- and, if you do the math, and 45% to 50% don't pay any income tax, you can see the middle class is not really paying any kind of a fair share, depending on how you want to define it," Gibbons said.
46% : Comments Gibbons made during a podcast last October that suggested the middle class doesn't pay its "fair share" of taxes.
43% : Over last weekend, Gibbons had gone on the defensive after the Associated Press published a story highlighting comments about taxes he made in October during a podcast interview with Crain's Cleveland Business.
42% : Despite the vitriol, the candidates themselves are not far apart regarding the issues, including red-meat topics like guns and abortion, with so much of their attention turned toward courting the endorsement of former President Donald J. Trump.
38% : In an effort at some damage control, Gibbons released a two-minute video on social media last Saturday pledging not to raise taxes on anyone.
36% : Specifically, as part of a lengthy answer about economic policy, Gibbons said Democrats advance what he called a "false narrative" that the wealthy aren't paying their fair share of taxes at the expense of the middle class.

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