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Ohio Issue 1 fails: Big cities, suburban and many rural counties voted down issue
Columbus Dispatch ^ | August 8, 2023 | Haley BeMiller

Posted on 08/08/2023 5:57:36 PM PDT by Coronal

Issue 1 was projected to fail on Tuesday, according to Decision Desk HQ, dealing a blow to Ohio Republicans who wanted to hamstring a November ballot question on abortion rights.

Decision Desk HQ, an election results reporting agency providing results and race calls for the USA TODAY Network Ohio, called the race around 8:09 p.m. With about 28% of the vote counted, no vote was leading 68% to 32%.

Tuesday’s election was the culmination of a months-long fight that began last year, when Secretary of State Frank LaRose and Rep. Brian Stewart, R-Ashville, first introduced a plan to tighten the rules for constitutional amendments. The debate played out in the halls of the Ohio Statehouse, on the campaign trail and even in the courtroom as opponents tried to stop GOP lawmakers in their tracks.

Proponents of the measure said they want to keep controversial policies out of the constitution and reserve it for the state's fundamental rights and values. Critics argued the ballot measure was a power grab that would hamstring the rights of citizens to place an issue on the ballot.

Ohioans appeared to buy the message opponents were selling.

(Excerpt) Read more at dispatch.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: abortion; neverconserativeglee; neverconservative; ohio; vote
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I think that conventional wisdom about Democrats gets turned on its head when you have mail-in ballots and “single-issue” voting on things like abortion and marijuana legalization.


21 posted on 08/08/2023 6:21:26 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.”)
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To: Drew68

Define some measure. My some measure is, rape incest or the life 5he mother.


22 posted on 08/08/2023 6:21:56 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AN GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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To: Coronal

Must sacrifice to Moloch. A nation in decline…


23 posted on 08/08/2023 6:22:11 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: cowboyusa

This certainly should: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/07/ohios-frank-larose-declared-himself-nevertrump-2016-called-trump-tweet-racist-2019-continued-opposition-through-2020/


24 posted on 08/08/2023 6:22:49 PM PDT by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could fight - Romeo company)
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To: Drew68

“I suspect many Republican voters are lazy as hell and can’t be bothered to get out and vote in off-year elections, for minor offices, or for referendum votes like this.”

I further suspect this will energize Millennials and Gen-Z for 2024. They’ve seen what happens in high turnout elections.


25 posted on 08/08/2023 6:24:34 PM PDT by snarkybob
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To: Coronal

If the first three years of Social Security were based on your child’s/children’s FICA payments, abortion clinics would add a new clause to their patient consent form like:

Killing off your baby unnecessarily will likely cost you about $30,000 in future SS payouts.

In forty years, the US might be a heavily Hispanic, Catholic-majority country.


26 posted on 08/08/2023 6:25:50 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Article II, Section 2: "The President...may require the opinion, in writing,...upon any subject...")
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To: cowboyusa
I think most people are in the middle, where President Trump and I am.

They are. Poll after poll has shown that a majority of Americans support legalized abortion in the first trimester.

For too long, conservatives dismissed these polls as fake news, propaganda, and now they're seeing, in the only poll that matters, --the poll taken in the voting booth, that these polls were indeed correct.

27 posted on 08/08/2023 6:26:23 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins.)
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To: Alberta's Child

The way the care about Abortion is the way I care about Gun rights.


28 posted on 08/08/2023 6:27:19 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AN GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“Why are women so eager to maintain the right to destroy their unborn children? Have men (in general) really become so lousy that they don’t see an alternative?”

A lot of women forget to take their daily pill. Smart reminder pill boxs might help the forgetful.


29 posted on 08/08/2023 6:29:41 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Article II, Section 2: "The President...may require the opinion, in writing,...upon any subject...")
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To: newfreep

What reaction were you expecting from a volunteer poll worker?


30 posted on 08/08/2023 6:29:44 PM PDT by sjm_888
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To: sjm_888

Considering the corruption in the voting system, the reaction was exactly what I expected.


31 posted on 08/08/2023 6:31:26 PM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

What happened to the Hebrews when they turned on God and started sacrificing their children to Baal?


32 posted on 08/08/2023 6:32:32 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Coronal

Can’t trust the elections anymore. But if the population turns over to a majority of evil and communism then this country is obviously finished. No earthly way to come back from that.


33 posted on 08/08/2023 6:32:53 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Alberta's Child

There is no referendum that can take away Gun rights. Those are GOD given,they are not subject to referendum or “ democracy” . There is NO compromise on this.


34 posted on 08/08/2023 6:33:34 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AN GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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To: cowboyusa

Before Social Security the bundle of joy was often eventually mom’s old age pension provider.


35 posted on 08/08/2023 6:33:37 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (Article II, Section 2: "The President...may require the opinion, in writing,...upon any subject...")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

girl power


36 posted on 08/08/2023 6:35:11 PM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

This was a mistake by the Ohio GOP. They got an awful lot of people who never vote fired up.


37 posted on 08/08/2023 6:37:04 PM PDT by PATed
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Why are women so eager to maintain the right to destroy their unborn children?

They think entirely differently from you.

In any war of ideas, it is important to understand that ones' adversary probably doesn't think the same way you do, especially when the adversary is in the majority.

Westerners are going to learn this the hard way wherever Muslims become the majority.

I am just using that as an example as it is an obvious one.

38 posted on 08/08/2023 6:40:42 PM PDT by Mogger
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To: devane617

They’ve won practically everything since 2018. Ok we won 4 seats in 2022. Dreadful.


39 posted on 08/08/2023 6:41:45 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: cowboyusa

Best to leave Abortion up to the voters. If we lose elections there will be abortion clinics on every corner. It’s hard to take away rights once they have been granted.

In a political organization I belong to, when there is a controversial state or local issue, we poll our our membership because it is the club’s position and in its by-laws to not officially endorse in primaries or take a position in local issues. However we publish the polls of our membership. This may sound spineless but this has served the organization well for 50 years.


40 posted on 08/08/2023 6:43:44 PM PDT by lone star annie ( )
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