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Ohio voters include a substantial percentage of [[pro-life]], [[working class]] [[Democrats]] who shifted enough to the [[Republican]] column to enable [[Donald Trump]] to garner 52% in 2016 and a higher 53% in 2020, despite [[Obama]] winning the state easily in 2008 and 2012.  Rampant [[early voting]] of roughly a month in duration plagues its elections, which [[Dem]]s exploit with [[ballot harvesting]], but in early 2024 a Democrat-appointed federal judge upheld election integrity laws enacted by the [[Republican]] legislature.

Ohio voters include a substantial percentage of [[pro-life]], [[working class]] [[Democrats]] who shifted enough to the [[Republican]] column to enable [[Donald Trump]] to garner 52% in 2016 and a higher 53% in 2020, despite [[Obama]] winning the state easily in 2008 and 2012.  Rampant [[early voting]] of roughly a month in duration plagues its elections, which [[Dem]]s exploit with [[ballot harvesting]], but in early 2024 a Democrat-appointed federal judge upheld election integrity laws enacted by the [[Republican]] legislature.

Neighboring [[West Virginia]] has swung strongly to the [[Republican]] side as [[Dem]]s push radical [[environmentalism]] to wreck the [[coal]] industry, and Trump carried West Virginia by nearly 40 points in 2020.  Ohio depends more on the car industry, but it too is being destroyed by the [[Dem]] push for [[electric car]]s that are difficult to make and sell.  As to college [[football]], [[Ohio]] has won 8 national championships.<ref>https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/college-football-national-championship-history</ref>

Neighboring [[West Virginia]] has swung strongly to the [[Republican]] side as [[Dem]]s push radical [[environmentalism]] to wreck the [[coal]] industry, and Trump carried West Virginia by nearly 40 points in 2020.  Ohio depends more on the car industry, but it too is being destroyed by the [[Dem]] push for [[electric car]]s that are difficult to make and sell.  As to college [[football]], Ohio has won 8 national championships.<ref>https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/college-football-national-championship-history</ref>

 

The state Constitution of Ohio, like all of the other 50 states, acknowledges God or our Creator or the ''Sovereign Ruler of the Universe''.  It says:

The state Constitution of Ohio, like all of the other 50 states, acknowledges God or our Creator or the ''Sovereign Ruler of the Universe''.  It says: