Voters in Ohio went to the polls to decide whether to approve a measure known as Issue 1 that would raise the bar for constitutional amendments on the ballot. In the ultimate irony, the vote against changing the amendment process exceeded the 60% supermajority that the special election was seeking to require in the first place.
Perhaps I’ve been too harsh on Ohio…
The people of Ohio are generally very centrist to left leaning. We however have been so (illegally) gerrymandered that it certainly doesn’t appear that way. Rural Ohio is Conservative just like everywhere else in this country.
When decisions are made democratically, as this was, we usually make the correct decision. That’s why the right tried to take this away from us.
Trump won Ohio. Presidential elections are not gerrymandered at the state level.
Gerrymandering affects turnout, especially when done as blatantly and for as long as they have in Ohio.
That’s not strictly true. Each state determines its own way to determine delegates.
An except from https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/allocation
Well, it is true of Ohio.
True, though so did Sherrod Brown… Ohio’s political personality is definitely a weird one. As a resident, the Trump and J.D. Vance thing still strikes me as exceptionally strange given Ohio typically goes for moderate Republicans. I think it’s really the redder parts of the state don’t “recognize” the extremism/have been successfully convinced the left is “equally extreme.”
It’s frustrating.
Eh oh, way to go Ohio