“Women are withholding their support”: How women could decide key Ohio race — and Senate majority
SalonOhio's highly anticipated Senate race has long been rated a toss-up as incumbent Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown and Donald Trump-backed challenger Bernie Moreno ping-ponged a roughly two-point lead over the last six weeks. The Cook Political Report still rates the Ohio Senate race a "toss-up," while the FiveThirtyEight polling average notches a 1.2-point lead for Brown as of Nov. 3. Another recent poll from the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron in Ohio showed Brown with a two-point lead over Moreno, notching 46% support to Moreno's 44%. Strachan speculated that the split between support for Trump and support for Moreno among women surveyed could be indicative of the car dealer hemorrhaging support in the aftermath of his now-viral, controversial comments in September, calling it "a little crazy" for Ohio women to heavily weigh abortion access when casting their ballots.