03/23/2024

Ohio has Been a Bellwether and a Battleground

What we can learn from it now

Once upon a time, winning the Ohio vote for president pretty much meant spending the next four years in the White House.

The Buckeye State was The Bellwether State for 14 presidential election cycles spanning six decades. Ohio's choice won the Electoral College in every four-year showdown from Lyndon Johnson's landslide in 1964 to Donald Trump's upset win in 2016.

That streak was the longest of its kind for any state. But even before that extraordinary run began, Ohio had voted for the winner 21 times and for the loser just four times since the Civil War.

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