Biden might not make Ohio ballot (UPDATE: DeWine calls special session to change law)

[Schiff for Senate]

I'm 99.99999999% sure Joe Biden/Kamala Harris will be on the ballot as Democrats in Ohio but should the Republican SOS and Legislature play games Biden Harris could run as Independents with 5,000 signatures by August 7th.

This would certainly result in the highest number of counties a third-party candidate has won since 1992 (Perot won 15 counties nationwide in 1992 (not consequential at all, of course, but interesting factoid).

I mean, no third-party candidate has won any county at the presidential level since Perot. What would be cool is if Biden-Harris would beat Perot 1992's score, because then one would have to go back to 1968 to beat that, but it's not gonna happen (OH had just 7 Biden counties in 2020 and one of them is a quintessential swing county).

[Schiff for Senate]

It's not like Biden is going to win Ohio so there is no point in them doing this.

Taking Biden off the ballot in Ohio would have cut his popular vote margin in 2020, from 1.5% to 2.8%. 

Do you mean 4.5%?

If so, that means removing Biden from the OH ballot could mean a ~2 point rightward swing for the NPV, which may very well change the outcome of who wins the NPV (obviously not relevant to the actual outcome, but still symbolically significant).

Still, Biden will make it back onto the ballot so it's really all a moot discussion.