It would be hilarious if PA and FL end up not mattering because Joe wins OH.
Ohio counts its votes quickly. Ohio could be an early call.
We may be seeing a Trump collapse here.
This is why there's such a powerful argument for Biden to go all-out here. He's pretty much been playing footsie with us all summer, when he should be trying to slip us a roofie. That analogy took a turn. I'm sorry.
Yoda!
Sure multiple media markets which overlap Western PA, MI, not to mention "stretch places" such as IN, KY for down-ballot races...
Trump short on cash and now dependent on a small number of "Super Donors" to help cover the gap on the "Air Wars"...
Lived in OH for four Years in the early / mid '90s...Sure Bill Clinton won in '92 / '96, but Perot played really well on the margins, especially bcs of MFG global outsourcing crap that DEM's and PUB's alike had been doing for decades to get on their knees and almost literally s**k the wand of MNC's shifting our Union jobs down South in the '70s/'80s and then later on "off-shoring became a thing"...
Dick Gephardt (D-SEN-MO)when he was running for Pres hit the nail on the head...
Regardless--- "Anglo" / White WWC Voters in OH know which side they are on, despite having been screwed over by Neo-Liberal Politicians of both Political Parties...
COVID-19 appears to have created a perfect storm in OH, where not only many of the O'Bama>Trump Senior voters are coming home, but additionally the swings in what consist of "Upper Income College Educated Anglo Voters" in places such as suburbs of Columbus and Exurbs of Cleveland are compounding Trump's problems in OH...
Honestly thinking places like Montgomery County, Appalachian suburbs of Dayton such as Kettering, as well as decaying former Auto Plant Towns such as Springfield might be ground zero when it comes to OH in 2020...
Most of Atlas is obsessed with NE-OH, where Biden will likely significantly outperform HRC, but it's not a "One Trick Pony" kinda state....
Biden got the $$$ bcs of small donors like me and my wife (despite the fact we donated a lot more a week for Sanders during the DEM PRIM)...
I support his campaign investment choices, messaging and themes...
Sure, don't see eye to eye with Biden on many major and fundamental issues, but still we should be able to work out deals as the "Left" with the new President without compromising our ideals, while simultaneously pushing the message forward....
Interesting random factoid that I learned when I was college student in OH.... one of the top states in the Union when it comes to Undergrad public/private Colleges....
Anyways--- I met Mike Dewine and his Wife back when "I was a boy in Ohio", and they were lovely people, while we sipped ice-tea and homemade cookies on the porch of his house way back in the early '90s...
I can roll other sounds and soundtracks from OH from back in the '90s... including arguably one of the best LGBTQ+ songs (Lesbian musician with focus on Ohio)...
Random Atlas posters hating on the Midwest & Ohio have no clue about the street marches and demos we did back in the late '80s / '90s to defend abortion clinics from Operation Rescue, mass mobilizations against the revival of the KKK / White Supremacist Political Formations in the Midwest, marching down the streets of the largest Cities in Ohio with ACT-UP and Queer Nation comrades?
Student population and expansion of University Education for the sons & daughters of working class people in OH created a "Ground Zero" of the New Left, especially after the murders at Kent State and the Nixon Administration exposed for what it was:
"An Authoritarian Regime willing to use all means necessary to murder working-Class College Students in NE-OH, after the news reports came out regarding the expansion of the War from Vietnam into Cambodia".
Ohio and Iowa are on the "flip Biden" category because both States generally support local education, and generally every time the Republicans attempt to destroy the Unions PUB's back down as a result of massive collective resistance...
Si Se Puede... even in OH, despite Trump trying to make the "copper vote" and "firefighter vote" political.
Irish-American voters will vote for the "Real Catholic Democrat" Biden vs the "Poser Scottish Protestant" Trump, who squandered his daddies dollars, never fought in a war overseas, whose acts and works are lacking, plus the dude is just a dick kinda boss stereotype with no empathy, no understanding, no humanity, and ultimately appears to care much more about his own ego than anything else, while meanwhile our parents, relatives, friends, and Grandparents die at a rate, which is practically worse than average US Monthly combat deaths during WW II...
