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“It’s really kind of shocking, because this should be just a slam dunk, and it’s not,”
Ohio Gov. John Kasich told ABC’s This Week on Sunday.
Balderson leads Democrat Danny O’Connor by 1,754 votes. That’s a lead of 0.9 percentage
points. There are, however, some 8,500 provisional and absentee ballots still to be counted.
If the gap were to shrink to within 0.5 percentage points, that would trigger an automatic
recount. O’Connor would need about 55 percent of the outstanding provisional and absentee
ballots to get within that margin. He would need a little over 60 percent to take the lead.
The state has 10 days before those remaining ballots can be counted, according to the Ohio
secretary of state’s office.
The unofficial (i.e. non-canvassed) numbers I have suggest a few things.
Balderson underperformed Trump in every county in the District — except his home one. Even so, he won five out of seven counties by *double digit* margins. Had he gotten one percent more in Delaware County, it would have been SIX of seven counties.
O’Connor outperformed Clinton in every county except Balderson’s home county. What made this election close, in all probability, is that 1/3rd of the voters live in Franklin County, which includes Columbus.