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, a higher 53% in 2020, and a 10% lead over Biden as of late April 2024,<ref>https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/ohio/</ref> despite how [[Obama]] won Ohio 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, a higher 53% in 2020, and a 10% lead over Biden as of late April 2024,<ref>https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/ohio/</ref> despite how [[Obama]] won Ohio 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. |