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Originally Posted by Skuj
So, even after 18 months of Trumpism, Ohio votes GOP.
Please explain this to me .
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1) Ohio. it was captured by the Repubs about 10 years ago. A funny state. One thing they did was purge all Democrats from any job they could. My uncle lost his job of 15 years as a prison psychologist. "to the victor goes the spoils"
2) gerrymandered as fuck
3) full of hill people from KY and AR
no, not at all doomed. Dems need to step up, if Dump campaigns a state race, so should E Warren, the Castro brothers, Biden
still, damned close in a place where Dump won easily in 2oi6, so actually good news.
also, not over yet
WASHINGTON — The congressional special election in Ohio is down to the wire.
With 100 percent of precincts reporting Tuesday night, the candidates were separated by 1,754 votes, making the race too close to call, NBC News projected.
Republican Troy Balderson had 50 percent, or 101,574 votes, while Democrat Danny O'Connor had 49 percent, or 99,820 votes. But more than 3,400 provisional votes and 5,048 outstanding absentee ballots — nearly quadruple the margin — remained to be counted. State law bars boards of elections from counting those ballots until the 11th day after an election.
Even if Balderson does hold on to his tiny margin, this is very good news for Democrats, especially going into the fall, since O'Connor did insanely well in a district gerrymandered to give Rs a heavy advantage, and in a race where Republicans outspent the Dems. Rs have held the seat for 80 years with one brief intermission, and since this was a special election to serve out the term of Pat Tiberi, who retired earlier this year to do Literally Anything Else, Balderson and O'Connor will go at it again in November.