evidence: Ohio Senate candidate Tim Ryan may be Democrats’ best messenger on the economy. But what voters like best are his fighting skills. PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — Tim Ryan was leaving a union hall in Canton, in northeast Ohio when a retired pipefitter-welder gripped his arm at the door and suggested — in profane terms — that he tweak something he’d been saying a lot in his surprisingly competitive U.S. Senate campaign. [...] He urged his supporters to tell their friends that "Tim Ryan is not the moderate that he pretends to be."