As someone whose son is about to go to college in Ohio, I must say that the state is beautiful. The people were nice, has relatively decent roads, and a decent economy. Like many Midwestern States, however, it has suffered somewhat of a brain drain; many of its best and brightest have or are leaving the state, especially young people. While it is not as bad as say, Indiana or Iowa, its pretty bad. These policies are not helping it.
OH has never been a particularly liberal state, like say, MN or IL. However, it was never as conservative as IN. At one point, IA was more liberal than OH. Not sure that is true anymore. OH is gerrymandered to the hilt; IA is not. Yet the GOP hold every statewide office except 1 and every House Seat. In OH, Dems still have one senate seat and 5 house seats. My point is that there is still hope for OH. Sadly, for IA, not so much :(
Echoing this as an OH resident as well. It may not be FL, TX or TN here but the GOP is running the state into the ground.
As someone whose son is about to go to college in Ohio, I must say that the state is beautiful. The people were nice, has relatively decent roads, and a decent economy. Like many Midwestern States, however, it has suffered somewhat of a brain drain; many of its best and brightest have or are leaving the state, especially young people. While it is not as bad as say, Indiana or Iowa, its pretty bad. These policies are not helping it.
OH has never been a particularly liberal state, like say, MN or IL. However, it was never as conservative as IN. At one point, IA was more liberal than OH. Not sure that is true anymore. OH is gerrymandered to the hilt; IA is not. Yet the GOP hold every statewide office except 1 and every House Seat. In OH, Dems still have one senate seat and 5 house seats. My point is that there is still hope for OH. Sadly, for IA, not so much :(