Column: What will Biden presidency mean for Ohio pols?
Thomas Suddes
More than 10,000 Ohioans died during Donald Trump’s presidency thanks in part to his administration’s incompetence in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Were anyone to draw up a profit-and-loss statement analyzing how Ohio fared during America’s 45th presidency, that’d be the single greatest loss the Buckeye State suffered.
On the profit side, ask the many Ohioans who remain fans of the former president. More than 2.8 million Ohioans voted for the Trump-Pence ticket in 2016, more than 3.1 million in 2020. Evidently, regardless of what Donald Trump was or wasn’t doing for Ohio, our 45th president said things a majority of Ohio’s voters liked to hear, even things some might be afraid to say.
Few critics of the Electoral College are quite like Polly Baca.
Ms. Baca believes the Electoral College, which has chosen American presidents since George Washington, âhas absolutely no reason to be.â This year, she brought, and lost, a Supreme Court case challenging her stateâs rules over how electors vote. Before electors cast their ballots for president in 2016, she invited several members to her home to plot a way â also unsuccessful â to circumvent the outcome.
But unlike Donald J. Trump, whose raft of legal filings and maneuvers has failed to change the result of this yearâs election, Ms. Baca is a Democrat. And she even serves as one of the bodyâs 538 electors while all but calling for the group to be abolished.
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mock explanation for the ad, overhead at cain headquarters this morning. where did you put that joke video? joke video? that one provides quite the visual. next up, how many sides can mitt romney take on one issue? well, if it s about a piece of anti-union legislation out in ohio that s up for repeal three. first romney said he supported the anti-union bill. in a facebook post back in june romney referred to the legislation saying, quote, i stand with john r. kasich and ohio s leaders as they take on this important fight to get control of government spending. please visit www.betterohio.org for more information. well, then yesterday, perhaps after learning that polls are running heavily against the bill, romney had this to say. i m not speaking about the particular ballot issues. those are up to the people of ohio but i certainly support the effort of the governor to rein in the scale of government. i m not terribly familiar with the two ballot initiatives, but i m certainly supporti
notice he looked over to the other guy for help. now he s steering clear, right? until today, that is. i fully support governor kasich s i think it s called question two in ohio. fully support that. i know there are other ballot questions in ohio and i wasn t taking a position on those. one of them, for instance, relates to health care and mandates. with regards to question two, which is the collective bargaining question, i am 110% behind governor kasich and in support of that question. yeah, he does look like one of those robots at the hall of the presidents down at disneyland. you never know what they re going to say. from no comment to 110% in 24 hours, i can t imagine why he would want to sidestep questions related to health care. now for the big number. who do you want over for dinner or more accurately which gop candidate would most republican voters want to come to dinner, here s a hind pizza. that s right, herman cain is at the top of the list.