Claim: Sherrod Brown "has stood side by side" with President Barack Obama, presiding "over the most rapid increase in the debt over the last 2.5 years" and hurtling toward " the worst jobs record in the modern era."
Fact-check: NRSC blasts Brown for standing by Obama, his jobs record and debt increases
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Stephen Koff
Date published: 2011-09-08T00:00:00