So how is it the same people who elected Kasich turned around and voted down collective bargaining reforms a year later? There’s no correlation.
Not sure about that but Ohio did not see a frivolous campaign to remove a duly elected governor which cost the taxpayers millions. Wisconsin did.
Nor did the subsequent election occur during a presidential election so people will not be asleep again.
Easily explained by Ohio UNIONS. My dad (old steel worker union thug) lives in Ohio and always votes R (due to gun rights), but also always votes for anything pro-union. Our biggest fights (since I grew up) have been about unions. I say one bad thing about unions around him, and he gets really angry - face red, vein-popping-out-of-his-forehead mad. You can actually see the old thug coming out of him as he looks for the nearest 2x4 with which to smash in my skull. I went to visit him when that vote that you mentioned was being discussed, and I tried to explain to him that it was for PUBLIC EMPLOYEES, but he got all vein-poppy, and said "shut your f-ing mouth!". Such language coming from a 76 year-old uber born again Christian was a bit disconcerting.