Public service unions for one thing. They were successful in overturning Governor Kasich’s collective bargaining law - the stupid voters in Ohio voted to do this. There are also many pockets of those on the government teat. Others are totally uniformed on the issues and hold to the stigma that Ds are for the poor and working class, while the Rs are only for the rich. You’d be surprised at the number of people I’ve heard repeat this lie.
I’m not giving up hope, but our governor has a low favorability rating - thanks to the unions. He only won the state by 2% and the left has howled ever since to make his life miserable.
It’s interesting because the opposite seem to have happened in Wisconsin where people are getting pissed off at the government unions. This bit with Kasich and the unions I didn’t know about and explains things a little.
In a sane world publc employees wouldn’t be allowed to vote. A total conflict of interest.
Kasich was on Bill Cunningham’s radio show a couple weeks ago and they were saying his approval ratings are way up from where they were during his union legislation defeat.
If Kasich had been smart enough to exempt safety forces (police and fire), as they did in Wisconsin and I think in Indiana too, the legislation would probably have passed and relatively easily. The police and fire fighters’ ads drew a far more sympathetic response that anything any other categories (including teachers) could have thrown at it. It was a miscalculation but it should not have much if any effect on this year’s presidential numbers.