The Dems don't need the South. They need Ohio.
They reached their high water mark in Ohio. Also, the upper Midwest is in play. Look at the efforts the Donks made in Minnesota and Wisconsin to win those two states.
I'm not going to cite fraud, just that the Democrats and their 527s was responsible for remarkable turnout that overcome GOP efforts.
I doubt the Donks can replicate that, and Ohio I believe is now a lost cause for them.
They have about as much a chance of winning one as the other.
Ohio was never a swing state. No democrat for president has won 50% of the vote there since LBJ.
A majority of the congressional delagation, the 2 senators, the governor, and the secretary of state all are republican.
I don't know about the AG or the legislative branch.
There's a story Bob Shrum wrote after the election, which kind of should have tipped off everyone.
The democratic party brought in something like 50,000 volunteers and workers from out of state to work Ohio, the GOP matched them......with only instate folks.
That is not a swing state.
They'd be better off trying for the South, or border states.
Of 7 statewide offices in Ohio, all are GOP and have been for a while. The state legislatures have been GOP since 1994 and both Senate seats have been Republican since Metzenbaum and Glenn retired.
The Dem Party in Ohio has been dead for a while, it just gets (barely) re-animated once and only once every 4 years and that takes massive money from the DNC.