My southwest rural part of the state of Ohio almost invariably votes conservative. From all my conversations with neighbors, church-goers, and even casually offered comments by strangers, there is no doubt that our region of the state will vote overwhelmingly against Obama.
In Ohio, that has to outnumber the pro-Obama vote that will come from the cities. That is normal for Ohio, with the past exception of Hamilton County (Cincinnati) being urban but conservative. That has changed, Cincinnati proper now votes liberal. The key, though, has always been to balance the huge number of liberal votes out of the Cleveland, northeast corner of the state with the southwest, conservative region. The two other major cities of Columbus and Toledo must be neutralized by the remainder of the state.
Here in the southwest, though, the numbers are so overwhelmingly anti-Obama that I see little means for him to win short of a huge turnout in the northeast.
As for me, I’m an independent, principled conservative who can vote for neither Obama or Romney, both being anti-life, radical liberals.
Nonetheless, being fair with what I see (and I admit it’s anecdotal), I honestly see Romney up in this state at this point, and I see him winning Ohio.
Yeah, and if even if a small number of “pure” people like yourself cost the election and give obama for 4 more years don’t be surprised when we call you out for it.
And Brown is going down...
I agree, Romney could win Michigan but it has more to do with how bad Obama is than how good Romney is. After all, Romney had an exceedingly poor showing in the primary and needed a middle of the night rule change to put him on top after his tie with Santorum. In 08, Romney beat McCain in Michigan by 10 points.
I’m also a SW Ohioan who votes conservative. Unfortunately the GOP decided to nominate Romney instead of a real conservative, so Romney’ll have to figure out how to win OH without me LOL. Not like we didn’t tell those GOP establishment types either.