We used to carry elections for Dems as often as we carried for Repubs and arguably even more. shyt, it was like this as recently as the Obama Administration. He won our state TWICE. It seems like after 2012, Ohio swung red for good cause literally every election from the 2014 Midterms to the 2020 Presidential Election, Ohioans voted all Republican leaders since.
Why is Ohio no longer a swing state???
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Captain Crunch
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Too many rural areas and white people. Look at Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincy, they overwhelmingly went for the Democrats but wasn’t enough to offset rural Ohio
bigillwill06
All Star
Exactly outside of the big city hoods and there close suburbs (which are mostly black) ohio is white as fukk and racist as fukk. Always been....
Devilinurear
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Could be demographic shifts. Ppl from Ohio that would vote blue May have moved out or more red moved in. That’s the explanation for Arizona shifting. A lot of Cali ppl moved there the last few years. These sorts of demographic transitions may be big in 2022 and beyond. With corona and increasing work from home a lot of ppl been moving out of major cities this year. Whether or not it’s permanent or temporary is to be seen but if permanent it’s going to effect future elections. There’s already a thought of Texas flipping blue in the future
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Ohio was possibly even more rural during the 20th century and they still voted for the more liberal party for much of election history (Republicans pre-1965, Democrats post-1965)
Their economy has been decimated by the loss of manufacturing jobs and loss of union membership. That always favors republicans and conservatives which can tap into their emotional thinking.
This trend has also been prevalent in Michigan & Pennsylvania.
This trend has also been prevalent in Michigan & Pennsylvania.
I did move to California
Coal Mining
Dems want to move away from it of course
Republicans act like they want to keep it (even though in reality, they could care less) but they promise to bring nonexistent coal mining jobs back
also the Pandemic hit those coal mines hard and another shutdown probably not very popular
Dems want to move away from it of course
Republicans act like they want to keep it (even though in reality, they could care less) but they promise to bring nonexistent coal mining jobs back
also the Pandemic hit those coal mines hard and another shutdown probably not very popular
Crazy how Ohio got 3 metropolitan cities with a nice size Black population, yet it is a red state more than not.
I think ppl look at Ohio on the map and think it is small, but even with the "big 3", there is a very big rural population.
Blame @Buckeye Fever's Wife
I had to drive through some of them rural areas because I made a wrong turn when I was headed back to Illinois
Rural Ohio and rural Indiana
Rural Illinois is like
to me
Democrats are sellout fags that will never help unions so they can't help ohio. They got zilch to help the cacs in the country who remember factories and warehouses.
saturn7
Politics is an EXCHANGE!!!
A lot of white Christians in the areas outside of the cities.
Ohio is a case study in how the Dems lost "white blue collar" workers. Sure those people weren't too left on social issues but did not agree with right wingers on economic issues. The old saying the Republican party is the party of bosses while the Dems represents the workers.
Ohio was a big industrial state and unionized labor was strong. The loss of industries and factories hurt a lot of areas.
Some areas never recovered from policies like NAFTA. The GOP won those people over on culture war issues and painting Democrats as out of touch "social elites".
Which hits home because the Dem party has abandoned organized labor for the white collar consultant and Wall Street class.
Ohio is a case study in how the Dems lost "white blue collar" workers. Sure those people weren't too left on social issues but did not agree with right wingers on economic issues. The old saying the Republican party is the party of bosses while the Dems represents the workers.
Ohio was a big industrial state and unionized labor was strong. The loss of industries and factories hurt a lot of areas.
Some areas never recovered from policies like NAFTA. The GOP won those people over on culture war issues and painting Democrats as out of touch "social elites".
Which hits home because the Dem party has abandoned organized labor for the white collar consultant and Wall Street class.