“Once again, Democrats effectively motivated their voters while Republicans were complacent and took this off-year election lightly”
I disagree that Republicans were complacent. I think on this issue they are simply outnumbered.
As I posted on a different thread about this, I think the outcomes in Wisconsin, Kansas, and now Ohio, are going to encourage Millenials and Gen-Z to continue to vote in large numbers. They are going to notice that when they vote, they swing elections. Expect more Millenial, Gen-Z participation in the future. Especially on issues like global warming and student debt forgiveness.
When I checked the money which went into Prop 1 I was surprised to see that for once the good guys were not heavily outspent. So in that sense I concede that they didn’t take this election TOO lightly though I’m left to wonder what the supporters of Prop 1 spent that money ON.
Democrat money always goes towards effective propaganda and highly effective GOTV schemes (fraud not excepted — that costs them money too, presumably).
I live near Ohio but don’t watch Ohio TV, listen to Ohio radio, and my phone doesn’t have an Ohio IP address, all of which means I wasn’t inundated with liberal propaganda regarding Prop 1.
But *somebody* sure was, and it would interesting to know what, if anything, was done by Prop 1 supporters & organizers to counteract that and also what was done to get the good people of Ohio to show up at the polls (or vote in whatever way) in order to counteract the votes of the bad people.
The answer, I suspect, is “very little” and in any event the answer definitely was “not nearly enough”.
Now let’s get ready for 2024, because things will totally be different then!