Ohio has been a bellwether and a battleground: What is it telling us now?
Once upon a time, winning the Ohio vote for president pretty much meant spending the next four years in the White House.
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Once upon a time, winning the Ohio vote for president pretty much meant spending the next four years in the White House.
It’s basically an aphorism at this point that American voters almost never make a decision about their choice for president based on foreign policy. The only exception comes when Americans are in harm’s way, as Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George W Bush and Barack Obama can all attest.
On Tuesday, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson won the GOP primary to become his party’s nominee for North Carolina governor, presumably with the help of female voters.
Re Joe Biden’s response to questions about his memory and mental capacity (Biden was in a fighting mood for surprise speech – but he didn’t win, 9 February),on 31 March 1968, Lyndon Johnson made a speech supporting his decision not to run for a second term in the White House, on the grounds that he wanted to devote his remaining months in office to finding a way of bringing the Vietnam war to a peaceful conclusion. The subtext of course was that, if he ran, he would almost certainly lose on the grounds of his association with events in Vietnam.
Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt offered a stern warning about President Biden's re-election chances on Monday, suggesting his campaign is currently in a "death spiral" with less than nine months until the 2024 election.