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applegrove

(118,014 posts)
Sun Jun 7, 2020, 01:38 PM Jun 2020

Ohio is suddenly a 2020 battleground

Ohio is suddenly a 2020 battleground

BY JONATHAN EASLEY at the Hill

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/501427-ohio-is-suddenly-a-2020-battleground

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President Trump’s campaign is spending money to defend Ohio, an unexpected development that underscores the president’s polling weakness amid the coronavirus pandemic and civil unrest wracking the country.

Trump won Ohio by 8 points in 2016, and Democrats failed to flip any House seats there in 2018, which was an otherwise big year for Democrats nationwide.

Democrats had all but written off the state heading into the 2020 cycle, believing the rightward drift had taken the former presidential bellwether off the board as a battleground state.

But a Fox News poll released this week found Democratic nominee Joe Biden leading Trump by 2 points in Ohio, one of several recent polls to find a close race there.

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Ohio is suddenly a 2020 battleground (Original Post) applegrove Jun 2020 OP
Foot On The Pedal sfstaxprep Jun 2020 #1
Get the Senate - and get THE GOVERNORS! Grins Jun 2020 #6
Explains why Portman True Blue American Jun 2020 #2
This means we have to work even harder in Ohio. If we can GOTV, we might be able to turn Ohio blue! BComplex Jun 2020 #3
Of course. Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2020 #4
Which is why Republicans in state legislature Philostopher Jun 2020 #5
Obama won that state twice democrattotheend Jun 2020 #7
Trump has until mid-September to turn around his poll numbers or his party Yavin4 Jun 2020 #8

Grins

(7,133 posts)
6. Get the Senate - and get THE GOVERNORS!
Sun Jun 7, 2020, 04:20 PM
Jun 2020

State governors and their state Secretaries control ALL the elections in their state. And with the 2020 census comes the re-districting that will set the 50-state election maps for the next decade - and you do not want a Republican in charge of that!

Vote EVERY REPUBLICAN OUT! Even if it is one you may like. (I know. Kidding!)

True Blue American

(17,972 posts)
2. Explains why Portman
Sun Jun 7, 2020, 02:08 PM
Jun 2020

Spoke out on the Senate floor about creating a Commission on racism and suggested Bush and Obama lead it since they both spoke out often against racism.

BComplex

(7,980 posts)
3. This means we have to work even harder in Ohio. If we can GOTV, we might be able to turn Ohio blue!
Sun Jun 7, 2020, 02:38 PM
Jun 2020

That would be my biggest wish.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,846 posts)
4. Of course.
Sun Jun 7, 2020, 02:53 PM
Jun 2020

It has struck me as odd when I've seen some posters here compose a list of states that Biden could win -- and they often have other purple states in them, and even some traditional red states, but no Ohio.

Philostopher

(4,465 posts)
5. Which is why Republicans in state legislature
Sun Jun 7, 2020, 04:01 PM
Jun 2020

Are quibbling over vote by mail. The primary was something of a fustercluck, because requests were routed through the Secretary of State to the local county boards of election. It was all kind of last-minute, though I'm still glad they did it.

I have relatives in another county who called the SOS to request mail-in ballots who never received them, so they had to either sit it out or vote in person. We requested our ballots using the online request system, and got them within a week, but our county BOE is pretty efficient. Obviously, the performance from county to county varies widely.

The ballots we received were prepaid to return - this is what the Republicans in state senate and house want to stop, they want voters to have to pay their own postage, which sure sounds like a poll tax, to me. They also want to limit early voting sites to a week (I admit I don't know how long they're open under ordinary circumstances), and cut back the mail-in ballot request window to a couple of weeks. They want people to have to go to the polls, because they know poor people and minorities are more susceptible to COVID-19, so they are more likely not to vote if they have to do it in person. Of course, they're the ones Republicans want to prevent voting, as we all know.

The ACLU is making noise about bringing suit to stop some of the changes. With an adequate window for ballot requests and prepaid ballot return envelopes, you're damned straight Biden could win Ohio. Let's see if it winds up being a fair fight, or the usual Republican obstruction and vote suppression, though.

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