The file

Mike DeWine

Republican · Governor of Ohio · Ohio · Spectrum score +27

Governor ·

Mike DeWine is Governor of Ohio in Ohio. Political positions and ideology score +27 (Center-right). DeWine is the remainder.

College: Miami University, B.S. 1969 · Ohio Northern University College of Law, J.D. 1972
Spouse: Fran DeWine (m. 1967)
Children: Eight
Résumé: Governor of Ohio · 2019–
Attorney General · Ohio · 2011–2019
U.S. Senator · Ohio · 1995–2007

Net worth: $4.5M
Salary: $168,101
Before office: $1.0M
2026 raised: —
Years in office: 43

Where Mike stands on the spectrum

Mike DeWine scores +27 on Spectrum’s left–right line (center-right), mixed on economic issues and conservative on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.

Composite +27 · Center-right · economic +25 · social +28 · authoritarian +17

Confidence 83. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

DeWine is the remainder. The file is a career that predates MAGA, vetoes his party hates, and a state that now sends Vance and Moreno to the Senate while keeping him in the governor’s office. The contradiction is Ohio.

Finances

Modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit of any household.

Net worth

$4.5M

+350% since taking office

Disclosure midpoint, 2025

Before office$1.0M

Now$4.5M

A 40-year Ohio career. Not a Dealer. Not a hedge fund. The brand is the remaining institutional Republican.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised: $0
Cash on hand: $0

Top industries

Ohio business
Health
Agribusiness

Stock holdings

Index / retirement funds

Forty-year Ohio career. Funds.

Disclosure midpoint, 2024–25 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit

VTI
Vanguard Total Stock Market
Joint
$250K–$1.0M
VXUS
Vanguard Total International
Joint
$75K–$300K

Ticker	Name	Owner	Range
VTI	Vanguard Total Stock Market	Joint	$250K–$1.0M
VXUS	Vanguard Total International	Joint	$75K–$300K

Sum of ranges $325K–$1.3M · midpoint $813K

X sentiment

Last 7 days

Odds

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Live wire

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Conflicts

Vetoes that infuriate the Ohio GOP and define him.
A family that has been on Ohio ballots since the 20th century.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic: +25
Social: +28
Authoritarian: +17
Confidence: 83

Taxes & spending+30
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
Health care+18
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
Climate & energy+22
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
Business regulation+28
Deregulation and lighter administrative state
Labor & wages+24
Flexible labor markets, right-to-work
Immigration+30
Tighter borders, more deportations
Abortion+24
Restrictions or bans, fetal personhood
Guns+34
Broad Second Amendment, fewer federal limits
Crime & policing+40
More policing, longer sentences, less bail reform
Schools & speech+30
Choice, against gender/DEI curricula
Defense & alliances+34
Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence
Civil liberties+14
Order, platform / campus / speech restrictions for security or morality

No roll-call first dimension on file — issues only.

Compass

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Sources

State record
Wealth and fundraising are modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit.
College, family, and résumé are public-record facts, not a campaign bio.