Posted on 07/23/2017 6:24:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump is scheduled to appear in Youngstown Tuesday. That's Youngstown, seat of Mahoning County, which, albeit by a tiny margin, voted for Hillary Clinton last November.
That's also the Mahoning County that, since 1932, has only voted twice for a Republican for president: Richard M. Nixon (by about 1,700 votes) in 1972, and Dwight D. Eisenhower (by about 4,900 votes, in 1956). And only twice since 1950 has Mahoning County supported Republicans for the U.S. Senate - George V. Voinovich, for re-election, in 2004, and Rob Portman, also for re-election, last November. (Election data are from Mike Dawson's peerless Ohio Historical Election Results website.)
Trump's Tuesday event is billed as a "Rally in the Valley" at Youngstown's Covelli Centre. ("The Valley" is local lingo for "the Youngstown-Warren area.")
It's unlikely Trump will mention Tuesday that 20,292 Mahoning County residents had health care coverage (as of the end of May, according to state data), thanks to the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion option. That's the Medicaid expansion that Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell want to kill.
Ohio's Medicaid expansion, engineered by Republican Gov. John Kasich, was also providing health care coverage to 15,426 residents of Trumbull County and 6,670 Columbiana County residents......
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It’s unlikely Trump will mention Tuesday that 20,292 Mahoning County residents had health care coverage (as of the end of May, according to state data), thanks to the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion option. That’s the Medicaid expansion that Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell want to kill
Stop reading after this
I just spoke with my on-the-ground Board of Elections people in Montgomery Co., further south (Dayton) yesterday.
OH does not register by party, so we don’t have any updated voter registration statistics like we do from PA, NC, and 14 other states. This is one reason polls can be so far off (they were on AVERAGE about 4 points off in November, even giving Trump the victory).
We do know that lots of OH Dems voted for Trump. Normally in Montgomery Co., the Dem wins-—but if the R is close, the R takes the state. Trump won Montgomery outright. He was strong in Mahoning all campaign.
I’m betting next May, when we have our first real post-November data, you’ll see a significant shift toward the Rs-—and NOT because they like Kasich or Portmant, but entirely based on Trump.
Are there any op-ed writers who aren’t Communist ?
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