Jim Betts ran against the first American to orbit the Earth.
Jim Betts is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives. 
 He ran against incumbent U.S. Senator John Glenn in 1980. 
John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 December 8, 2016) was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio. 
 In 1962 he became the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times. 
