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[PittBlue]

1. I live in NE Ohio near Cleveland, which is somewhat liberal.

The rural areas are blood red. Even the Amish support trump. Look at Vance, Moreno and Gym Jordon….Ohio’s gifts to the world.🤮

[CincyDem]

2. I'll take a swing...

There's a strong anti-Vivek movement across the state. The MAGA message that we hear a lot about him is he was a token and, just like any other token, ya use it and then throw it away.

But...

The alternative for these guys is to vote for a woman and, no matter that she f'ing saved the state during covid, that's a greater sin than being "brown".

What you're seeing, IMHO, is the MAGA crowd falling in line.

Separately - I really like Amy Acton and I would say that among the last 3-4 Dem candidates for governor going all the way back to geriatric Lee Fischer...she's got the best change to turn the state house blue. Her running mate - David Pepper - is arguably the most strategic Dem in the state and he's a fighter. I like their chances.

[Blue Full Moon]

3. Whatever they show Acton at you can add 20% more.

[JI7]

4. Being Hindu is the biggest reason

I think if the democrat was a white male Christian he would be losing.

But the Democrat is a Jewish woman so he might have some chance of winning.

I think a bunch of right wingers will vote third party or not vote at all. We need to focus on getting as many votes as we can out becsuse democrsts there have a better chance of winning now than in some years.

[msongs]

5. solid red state, repubs will take this dei hire instead of a woman nt

[yaesu]

6. A stupid pandemic? Fox news lobotomies?nt

[Takket]

7. Ohio is a red state now

Dewine won 62-34 in the last election. That is a straight up blowout

Ramaswamy TRAILING by 1 point there is an absolute panic inducing disaster for the GOP.

[Torchlight]

8. What's your take on it?

[dsc]

9. DeWine won by nearly 4 in 2018

which was a terrific Democratic year nationwide. We haven't won any statewide races in Ohio since 2006 except for Obama's two victories in 2008 and 2012, and Brown's victories in 2012 and 2018. Trump won by 8 in 2016, 8 in 2020, and 11 in 2024. Frankly him being down by 1 is a horrible showing for him. I would think virtually any other GOP candidate would be up by at least decent single digits.

[Polybius]

10. More context please

Are you saying that you're surprised that he's not leading, or surprised that he's not trailing bad?

[kacekwl]

11. People in Ohio seem to be really

backward dumb asses. No offence to Democrats and sane folks in Ohio. We have plenty of the same in Illinois.