HILLSBORO, Ohio – From the two-lane Simon Kenton Bridge at the Kentucky border to the steep curves past farms and river towns, U.S. Route 62 reminds you that Ohio is a battleground. Since the pioneering days of Kenton and his friend, Daniel Boone, and Ohio’s bloodless war with Michigan over a poorly drawn border, someone has always wanted to claim the state. Today, it’s her electoral votes. “We matter … as much as we did the day my great-grandfather scouted what was then the Far West,” said Jay Noble of Norwood, a fifth-generation descendent of the legendary Kenton. Ohio has...