How was Obama able to win Ohio

[Samof94]

What made him able to win this state in 2012 despite the fact, like Iowa and Florida, it turned much redder just a few years later?

[wnwnwn]

Romney was an establishment candidate of a pro trade and still neocon party. Trump is way more appealing that Romney in appalachian, northern and eastern Ohio.

[Annatar]

Romney repelled non college white voters in Ohio, he got fewer votes than McCain did in 2008, which also sums up his campaign as a whole.

[Redban]

Trump scored record-high support from blue-collar whites, which pushed those Midwest states away from Dems. Before him, Ohio was straight purple. Obama won Ohio because Romney and the Republicans didn't win over many Midwest working-class whites as yet

[Sumner 1868]