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Weird thing about Ohio. Despite being a red state, issues that are associated with the Democrats do well in statewide elections. I concede that the recreational marijuana transcends party lines somewhat but reproductive rights lands in the blue. Ten years ago Kasich's law ending collective bargaining for public employees was overturned in a state election. Anti-gerrymandering laws pass too. If Democrat candidates can't win state offices but their ideas pass that tells me the party needs to work on their messaging
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.