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Ohio only recently has gone red, after a long time of being swing/purple. But there is a disconnect between the big three metro areas (ya know- where the people are) and the vast rural cornfields. Districts like mine are diced up to take little chunks of the metro area and group them with large swatches of surrounding rural area, effectively surpressing metro representation.
If this state can ever get non-gerrymander maps I think we'd see a large shakeup in state offices.
Yes, but this doesn't affect the governor's office or the presidential election ... and yet the last 2 governor's office and presidential elections Ohio went for the Republican candidate.
Maybe people just don't understand that their votes really do count at the state level on these things. Maybe things have changed since 2016 and 2020 ... hard to say.
No, but limiting drop off, mail in voting locations does. Cuyahoga County only has one, from what I understand and that's downtown Cleveland at the Elections office.
Yes, that's a problem, but again it doesn't explain the disconnect between the issues and the candidates.
Yes sorry perhaps I misunderstood what they meant about state offices (was thinking state reps). The governor office has always confused me honestly, I believe there's a lot of "fiscal conservatives" in metro zones that showed up for Kasich and Dewine, and there plenty of trump-cult voters littered through the suburbs now... but I question if Ohio will continue embracing "MAGA conservatives" going forward. Vance may provide the argument that they will, but the mask is all the way off now post-roe. If Trump's not on the ballot we may see yet another shift.
It's hard to say, I think we need to do better getting people in metro areas out to vote