Together and to defeat the common enemy. And that is up to you. We will be working together for victory and a great cause. Victory has become a habit of our party. It has been elected four times in succession, and i am collect convinced it will be elected a fifth time this november. [applause] the reason is the people know the Democratic Party is the Peoples Party and the Republican Party is the party of special interests, and it always has been, always will be. [applause] the record of the Democratic Party is written in the accomplishments of the last 16 years. I dont need to repeat them. They have been very ably place before this convention by the keynote speaker, the candidate or Vice President and by the permanent chairman. Look at onea short of our many programs available in its entirety at our website, cspan. Org history. American history tv, exploring our nations past every weekend on cspan three. New york congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman nominated by a major
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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