Clear politics, that looks at the average of the polls in ohio. Right now with 18 electoral votes, it is essentially a dead heat, with joe biden at 46 on average, the president at 45 . Why is it so competitive, 3. 5 months before the election . Think iteve, i mean, i is there are a number of things happening at once. You are seeing a major shift in the suburbs of ohio that a few decades ago or even a year ago, these suburbs outside of cincinnati, columbus, and cleveland, they were the base of the republican party. That is how a john kasich would have been elected or even a george bush. Those suburbs are now blue. It is largely women voters, old moderate voters, saying this is not a party we were a part of, and they are voting blue. They voted for Sherrod Brown. They voted for democratic mayors and councilmembers, and they are not going to vote for donald trump is november. If you take away the old base of the republican party, and it is tossup or either democrat, which it is, that make
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Steve why is it so competitive before . Major youre seeing a shift in the suburbs of ohio that just a few decades ago or years ago, these suburbs outside cincinnati and columbus and cleveland, they were the base of the republican party. Thats how john kasich would have been elected, or even george bush. Those suburbs are largely blue. They are saying this is not the party we were a part of and they have left and they are voting blue for statehouse seats, sheriff brown, democratic mayors and councilmembers, and theyre not going to vote for donald trump this november. You take away the old base of the republican party, and it is tossup or either democrat, which it is, that makes ohio a much tougher state for republicans. That means they have to run up in the rural parts of the state, but these suburbs are a large voting bloc in the state of ohio, some republicans have really lost their old base. The second thing that has happened is the ohio economy, before covid, was already struggling.
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Watching kron 4 news at we found weve been able to identify and returned them. Car break ins happen all the time across the bay area. But it isnt often the victims get their items back thats exactly what happened. In Mountain View good evening. Im can way and im pam moore, a victim some crimes spanning 3 cities got their bags and their laptops back thats after detectives arrested 2 suspects on auto burglary charges. Kron fours michelle kingston has the story. The calls started coming in around 11 00am on thursday reports of a suspicious vehicle and 2 men casing cars here on the 1000 block grant road and Mountain View witnesses say the men were trying to open car door summer driving through parking lots. We responded quickly, but unfortunately at the time we were not able to locate the vehicle not a new Police Officers did not give up bin callers continue to report the activity the car was spotted just a few minutes later by witnesses on middlefield avenue in west monroe to in about 30