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In reply to the discussion: When a Centrist Independent is a more reliable vote for Democrats than, well, some Democrats... [View all]bluestate10
(10,942 posts)Ohio has republicans running the entire government. They have implemented laws and procedures to protect their advantage. That is what makes democrats sitting out the 2010 election there so fucking horrible. The last state to overturn a republican majority and go almost all democrat was New Hampshire in 2012. Republicans took over the New Hampshire Legislature after the 2010 election then proceeded to pass all types of crazy laws. Fortunate for New Hampshire, that state had a centrist democratic Governor who routinely outsmarted the legislature and restrained it. Voters in the 2012 election went on a bloodletting spree, turning virtually the entire state, except for a US Senate seat blue. In the legislature, more than 100 republicans lost seats to democrats. The Governors chair stayed with a democrat. Ohio isn't like New Hampshire, republicans in Ohio have entrenched themselves, it will take coalition building and disciplined voting to remove republicans from office. The far Left, with it's my way or the highway mentality, is unlikely to engage in meaningful coalition building, that is truly disgraceful.