Are the days of Ohio serving as a swing state over?
Sure, we have a D senator who won by a fairly comfortable margin, but the GOP winning gubernatorial candidate was actually a bad candidate, far less qualified than the D challenger. But, that R behind the name gave him a fairly safe win.
House districts here are overwhelmingly R (75%). And, the state legislature is no better.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/election-results/ohio/?utm_term=.a021217bf1e0
Are the days of Ohio serving as a swing state over?
Sure, we have a D senator who won by a fairly comfortable margin, but the GOP winning gubernatorial candidate was actually a bad candidate, far less qualified than the D challenger. But, that R behind the name gave him a fairly safe win.
House districts here are overwhelmingly R (75%). And, the state legislature is no better.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/election-results/ohio/?utm_term=.a021217bf1e0
Are the days of Ohio serving as a swing state over?
Sure, we have a D senator who won by a fairly comfortable margin, but the GOP winning gubernatorial candidate was actually a bad candidate, far less qualified than the D challenger. But, that R behind the name gave him a fairly safe win.
House districts here are overwhelmingly R (75%). And, the state legislature is no better.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/election-results/ohio/?utm_term=.a021217bf1e0
I've been wondering about this. Seems as if several of the Sun Belt states are shifting bluer, while Ohio is shifting redder.
Dems can still win back the White House in 2020 without Ohio, especially if they pick up Arizona along the way, as long as they don't nominate some ultraliberal. If they do that then they'll struggle to win the state of Connecticut.
Don’t really know much about either candidate, but is it really that weird that DeWine won considering he’d already won 4 statewide elections as Lt. Gov, Senator x2, and Attorney General? Clearly he’s appealed to the state for awhile.
DeWine is from this general area (SW Ohio). And, he outperformed Senator Sherrod Brown in this region, winning urban Montgomery County by a few tenths of a percentage point. Sherrod won Mont Co by 11 points.
DeWine also picked up quite a few counties in the far Northern part of the state. Sherrod swept all the counties along Lake Erie, and he took a big chunk of NE Ohio, as well. DeWine made solid inroads in all of those counties, winning quite a few that went to Sherrod (per maps shown in the op).
So, yeah. Maybe it is familiarity that helped here. Both Sherrod and DeWine are household names in Ohio. Cordray is more popular around Columbus.
With the exception of one county, DeWine held the Trump line:
From what I understand many in Ohio attend college- university- have to move out of State for work. That leaves behind an older populace, also a positive for those that vote R as older people vote consistently. Another is Trump attracts lower educated voters.
Dems do better with college/university - higher educated voters in particular women.
So if it were a generic d canididate versus a generic R canididate who would win?
We actually attract the anomaly: college educated Republicans; due to the Air Force Base and all the defense related industry around it. There has to be several hundred thousand defense related college educated workers and entrepreneurs in SW Ohio, covering an area stretching up 50 miles north from Cincinnati.
Cincinnati too is reasonably high tech, and the suburbs around it are reliably Republican. Columbus suburbs are not much different: well educated and reliably Republican.
I suggest you dig into demographics for Ohio. Big State
http://worldpopulationreview.com/states/ohio-population/
So Ohio has a high population density that is disproportionate to the size of the state.
If I had to guess what is one of the major issues in Ohio politics it has to be urban decay.
Are the days of Ohio serving as a swing state over?
Sure, we have a D senator who won by a fairly comfortable margin, but the GOP winning gubernatorial candidate was actually a bad candidate, far less qualified than the D challenger. But, that R behind the name gave him a fairly safe win.
House districts here are overwhelmingly R (75%). And, the state legislature is no better.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/election-results/ohio/?utm_term=.a021217bf1e0
Appalachia... Still Trumpland. Oxy, disability, coal, and Trump.
I suggest you dig into demographics for Ohio. Big State
http://worldpopulationreview.com/states/ohio-population/
Matches about what I said.
Ohio is a pragmatic state. Their statewide elected officials, whether they are Republicans or Democrats, are generally fairly moderate. I think it will remain a swing state to the extent Dems nominate people who appeal to independents.Are the days of Ohio serving as a swing state over?
Sure, we have a D senator who won by a fairly comfortable margin, but the GOP winning gubernatorial candidate was actually a bad candidate, far less qualified than the D challenger. But, that R behind the name gave him a fairly safe win.
House districts here are overwhelmingly R (75%). And, the state legislature is no better.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/election-results/ohio/?utm_term=.a021217bf1e0
No it does not.
So why is one trying to tackle the issue of of addiction to pain medicine?
I'd move to Sweden if I were you. Or, at worst, Denmark.Are the days of Ohio serving as a swing state over?
Sure, we have a D senator who won by a fairly comfortable margin, but the GOP winning gubernatorial candidate was actually a bad candidate, far less qualified than the D challenger. But, that R behind the name gave him a fairly safe win.
House districts here are overwhelmingly R (75%). And, the state legislature is no better.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/election-results/ohio/?utm_term=.a021217bf1e0
I've been wondering about this. Seems as if several of the Sun Belt states are shifting bluer, while Ohio is shifting redder.
Dems can still win back the White House in 2020 without Ohio, especially if they pick up Arizona along the way, as long as they don't nominate some ultraliberal. If they do that then they'll struggle to win the state of Connecticut.
Sure it does. The counties which are growing (with educated people too) are the ones I described: burbs north of Cinci and Columbus.
Everyone knows the rust belt part of the state is emptying out. But, they do not know that the high tech sector is expanding in the area I mentioned above.
I'm hoping for Bloomberg. I think he did a good job as Mayor of NYC and he is 10 times richer then 5 deferment cadet bone spurs. He would wipe the floor with him in any debate.
He's a pos who would energize most gun owners to do everything possible in terms of voting and donations to keep his control freak ass out of a national office
That's your 1 big issue. Plenty of other issues. I think he would be great.
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