by Jim Heath | Nov 30, 2020 | 2020, Democrats, Headlines
Ohio’s Democratic Party chair is stepping down after six years during which Republicans, including Donald Trump, dominated statewide elections. David Pepper, a former Hamilton County commissioner and Cincinnati council member, sent a letter to party officials saying...
by Jim Heath | Oct 28, 2020 | 2020, Analysis, Headlines
The day after his first televised debate with Vice President Richard Nixon in 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy was campaigning in Canton, Ohio. During the fall he made stops in Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo, Elyria, Youngstown, Lorain, and Cleveland where crowds often...
by Jim Heath | Oct 27, 2020 | 2020, Battlegrounds, Bloomberg, Headlines, Joe Biden
Mike Bloomberg is funding a last-minute spending blitz to bolster Joe Biden in Texas and Ohio, directing millions toward television advertising in two red states that have shifted away from President Trump in the general election. A political adviser to Bloomberg said...
by Jim Heath | Oct 6, 2020 | 2020, Battlegrounds, Headlines
More than 4.2 million people have already voted early in the presidential election, vastly exceeding the pace of 2016 as Democrats amass a commanding lead in returned mail ballots. In the 2016 election, around 75,000 people had voted early at this point, across...
by Jim Heath | Sep 28, 2020 | 2020, Battlegrounds, Headlines, Joe Biden
For a Republican to win the electoral votes in battleground Ohio, they need to carry places like Van Wert County by a landslide. Donald Trump carried the northwest Ohio county with 76 percent of the vote in 2016, burying Hillary Clinton who barely reached 20 percent....
