Posted on 11/21/2022 2:21:24 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The New York Times over the weekend explained that Ohio Republican Sen.-elect J.D. Vance’s win in the midterm election was a “reminder” that the Buckeye State is “no longer a swing state,” which will cause Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown to have a tough reelection in 2024.
Brown, who turned 70 this month, is the only Democrat to win a statewide election in the last decade in Ohio. However, Vance’s win posed an even harder reelection battle for his 2024 reelection bid, especially after the Republican governor won by roughly 25 points.
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But you Dems have an ace up your sleeve and that’s the ole cheating. Ohio’s not a swing state unless you dirt bags want it to be.
Ohio is a mixed bag. Labor union north, big government capital (central Ohio) and liberal swamp (Cincinnati in the south). Fortunately, suburbs vote Republican.
But not MY suburb. It a Democrat wasteland.
Sherrod Brown is the only Democrat to win a statewide race in the last 12 years. He’s going to have a much harder time in 2024 given that it should be a Republican year.
Most of the time it goes with the winner and no Republican President who has been elected has ever done so without winning Ohio.
Unfortunately, nor is Nevada, Arizona, and Pennsylvania.
Ohio has pretty secure voting. No mass ballot mailings, so no serious ballot harvesting (it does go on in nursing homes, illegally); if you want to vote early you can, but ID required to vote; absentee ballots by written request only. Dems do not control key offices like Secretary of State, so opportunities to cheat are severely limited to small scale stuff like maybe urban precinct shenanigans.
Yes, I think these past elections made it clear Ohio, Florida, and Iowa are no longer swing states and that North Carolina is starting to be a little more secure for our side too. The problem is it also confirmed the problems with GA and especially AZ are still there, and we absolutely have to have those two states to have any chance of winning the electoral college.
The only democrat congressional districts are found in Cleveland/Akron, Toledo, Columbus and Cincinnati. Five seats and not much prospect for gaining more in the foreseeable future.
Maybe Brown will see the light and decide not to run. Stay tuned.
As long as they have Mail In Voting, Drop Boxes and Ballot Harvesting, it’s a swing state.
Two states that are no longer, swing states....Michigan and Pennsylvania. Controlled, across the board by the Democrats. A Republican will never win either.
And, if they don’t figure out something in Arizona, stick a fork in it, for it is done.
“The problem is it also confirmed the problems with GA and especially AZ are still there,”
GA not as much of a problem right now. Republicans won every statewide office that was on the ballot in 2022, except for Walker, who is in a runoff. No more ballot harvesting due to restrictions on mail-in ballots and absence of drop-boxes in most locations.
Dems are having to fall back on in-person voting, which is why they are desperate to have early voting the Saturday after Thanksgiving. In-person voting requires State-Id, there’s a paper trail, and there are observers present. GA had none of the problems that AZ had with printers and tabulating equipment. A very tight ship in GA this time around.
Depends on who the GOP runs against him, and how many stupid votes Brown casts over the next 18 months. He’ll be under pressure to follow the party line with Manchin already going off the reservation and the Senate split down the (almost) middle. Which wing of the GOP carries the primary? If it’s the John Boehner closet poofs, Brown probably peels off enough in the Youngstown area to win.
What are the election laws in Ohio. Some states they can’t steal.
Only if Republicans refuse to take advantage of these tools.
That is true. And I’ve read that they did exactly that in a few places in California.
And there may be a silver lining in all of that BS. If the dirty tricks start getting used against the Democrats, they’ll become the ones screaming the loudest for an end to all of it and going back to what we all want, actually.
They’re some of the biggest babies on the planet and can’t stand when everyone plays by the same rules.
So, 100%, if the Republicans start doing it and winning, I’m all about it.
He’s already announced he’s running in 2024. Mike Turner (OH 10) could kick his butt!
Happy to be part of the solution, instead of languishing back in Michigan, from whence I fled upon retiring. One factor is the conversion of Coal Country Democrats. (Thank you Obama and Hillarious). My county on the Ohio River was once a Democrat UMW stronghold; this last election it went 100% Republican, except for one minor Democrat who was unopposed. The “Stop the War on Coal” yard signs are gone, but voters haven’t forgotten.
The GOP owns the American middle class and working class.
That's why Rat Party Headquarters has declared war...jihad,actually...on the middle class and working class.
Florida and Utah have tons of mail in voting. It doesn’t affect Republicans in either state negatively. They’ve proven that GOP can win if the party embraces mail voting like it was doing before Trump.
Trump is a better candidate than DeSantis but he has the wrong instincts on mail ballots. At least in my opinion.
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