No longer mirror of US, Ohio’s electoral bellwether quiets
Associated PressCINCINNATI — As Ohio goes, so goes the nation. He said he would have voted this fall for Trump “twice if I could.” Not only are Ohio’s voters getting older, those who stayed home on Election Day were predominantly young voters. “It’s definitely moving off of the really competitive presidential playing field,” said Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics who had said even before this election that Ohio’s demographics were going to make it redder. “He’s found really fertile ears in places like the Mahoning Valley, but really all over the state and in many parts of the country,” Brown said, nonetheless. “You can’t really sugarcoat it.” Brown, the only Democrat ever to defeat DeWine — when he unseated him as U.S. senator in 2006 — said he’s looking ahead to 2024.
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