Joe Biden to Cleveland Ohio Monday

[bucolic_frolic]

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Matt Viser
National political reporter at @washingtonpost
@mviser

NEW: Joe Biden is heading to Cleveland, Ohio, tomorrow, with his campaign believing the state — which Trump carried by 8 points in 2016 — is within reach.

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Dems have opportunity in Ohio? That's a very big WOW!

[Chili]

1. yeah baby!

I'll have to cheer all the honks from my living room, but great he's coming!

[LisaL]

2. My unofficial Biden signs poll tells me we have a chance in Oh.

For whatever it's worth.

[Chili]

3. mine too

Haven't seen one red sign - though I did see a 20-something tailgating party with those signs last Sunday, in a closed bevearge drive-thru parking lot, right here in Lyndhurst. Weird, but it was small. But that's it.

I believe we can, and will!

[Joedog]

4. Alright

Sherrod Brown has said all along Biden would carry Ohio

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Welcome to DU, Joedog!

I'm glad you're here!

And I sure hope Sherrod Brown is right.

[Joedog]

8. Thanks Peggy

I thought I needed to be with some of my kind of people to keep me sane during all crazy season.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. This is our electronic home, but real nonetheless.

We all need to hang onto our sanity!

[blueinredohio]

5. I haven't seen near the amount of Trump signs that I saw in 2016.

Usually Trump flags at farmers houses and ramshackle houses. And it is the day after Halloween and my Biden/Harris sign is still in the yard! That's a big plus around here. Maybe we do have a chance.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. Latest Emerson poll (rated A- per 538) has Biden up 1%.

Don't stop, Ohio Democrats!

[bucolic_frolic]

10. That would be a 9% improvement over 2016 in traditionally red Ohio

HRC 'won' by 3,000,000 votes. Imagine if Joe Biden improves by 9% nationally over 2016 levels.

9% is like 13.5 million votes on the expected 150 million cast. Add HRC's 3 million. Add hatred of Trump. Add the excellent flawless campaign Biden has run. Add GOTV. Add Republicans for Trump. What's your number?

I didn't think this would ever happen.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

12. There was a LOT of blue-collar hatred for the Clintons here.

Ohio is definitely more red than the country as a whole, but I think there was even more at play in 2016.

Ohio voted for Obama both times, and I don't think the demographics changed all that much in the interim.

I was so thankful in 2008 when he won the nomination over Hillary because I was certain that neither she nor any other Clinton would win Ohio.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Why did they hate the Clintons so much?

Steve Schmidt mentions "self-dealing". I'm not sure blue-collar workers are aware of that concept.

It was NAFTA?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

14. This area didn't fare so well in the 90's...

... but heard about the booming economy elsewhere.

NAFTA got a lot of the blame by some people, and Clinton was unfairly blamed too.

Edit: Blue-collar jobs didn't do well, mostly.

[Demsrule86]

18. We also didn't have a strong recovery after 2008...to many were quick to say the jobs

weren't coming back. Every four years Ohio was super important and after that it was Ohio who?

[Demsrule86]

17. NAFTA and Hillary was for the TPP at first.

[democrattotheend]

15. This is reassuring

I remember in 2016, after playing offense for a while, Hillary spent her last few days scrambling to shore up support in places we thought were safe, like Pennsylvania and Michigan. I knew from that that her internal polls showed those states closer than the public polls. I had the same feeling of dread when I read that Biden was spending time in Minnesota last week. The fact that he's spending the day before the election in Ohio, rather than Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota or Nevada is a good sign. I'd love to see him go to Texas too.

[Kaleva]

16. Can only mean that the Biden campaign thinks there a chance in Ohio.