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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.
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
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.