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[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

54. You can't blame the gerrymander entirely. Look at the red vs blue in the state.

There are really only a few blue concentrations, with most of the state red. Yes, they STILL gerrymandered to weaken and divide those blue areas, but the reality is that Dems actually are concentrated geographically. We're not a purple state, we're a red state with a few large pockets of blue folks.

But I agree 100% with you on the 'ineffective state party'. I was dismally disappointed when I attended a county level party meeting. Despite having mailed/emailed everyone in the county who had voted in Dem primaries multiple times in a row, I think I was the only county resident who showed up who wasn't already part of the machinery. And when I heard their ideas on how to 'excite' the base, it was all I could do not to literally drop my jaw in disbelief. Ohio is hurting. Kasich has raised regressive sales taxes while cutting upper end taxes, our job 'growth' has been abysmal, with most new jobs being at the minimum wage end of things, and the legislature spends all of its time trying to find new ways to take away reproductive choice. And we're supposedly a 'bellwether' state, yet we can't get national money in to offset thr anti-labour money that floods in to reinforce Kasich and cronies.

It's not a matter of 'give me a good enough candidate'. It's a matter of give all of the people who don't vote a good enough candidate that they're willing to become first time voters. Give all of the young people who BECAME first time voters for Obama a reason to feel they weren't simply wasting their time. I'll be voting. Even for that poorly-vetted former FBI guy they're running against Kasich. But it won't matter a hill of beans unless they actually run candidates who can draw in the never-voters, the rare-voters, and the never-before voters.