If you are Jewish and live in Cleveland’s Beachwood and University Heights neighborhoods, you have almost certainly been made aware that your vote could be the determining factor in a close and critical House primary on Tuesday.
Jews in Ohio’s 11th Congressional District have been flooded with campaign mailers. They can’t look at their phones without seeing a targeted ad. Then there are the TV attack ads, the Facebook banners and the op-eds in the local newspapers.
The primary pits Nina Turner, a former top Bernie Sanders presidential campaign surrogate, against Shontel Brown, a councilwoman from Cuyahoga County, and has been described as a showdown between mainstream and progressive Democrats. And both campaigns are looking at Jews as a key source of votes. The winner in this overwhelmingly Democratic district is all but assured to win the general election in November.