This referendum was flawed for several reasons:
1) It was held in August and was the only thing on the ballot. The Republicans specifically reversed a law against August elections just for this referendum. What was the rush?
2) The process for changing the Ohio Constitution has been the same since 1912. Why does it need to change?
If this was about abortion, then the Republicans should have just said it instead of denying it all along.
The whole thing looked very cynical, and it lost 2-1 in a pretty Red state.
This should disqualify LaRose for Senate.
Yes, and I helped them by voting HELL NO. Leftist Uniparty republicans rule this state. They fight conservatives more than the democrats. The Tea party was utterly destroyed in my county. Rino infiltrator trash co-opted it.
The head of the Ohio chamber of commerce is Steve Stivers who carried the ball on h1-b’s while he was in the congress. 175,000 illegal aliens in June and another 165k in July, no e-verify in this state though.
Dolan, another senate candidate voted for gun control. Red Flag has been implemented in our state without using the words “red flag” and all ready being implemented. A bitch in charge of future implementation in the very near future commented in the local paper that the perception was if you had more than 5 drinks in a week there was a problem. You need more... Property evaluations jumping 40 plus percent for single family and 110% for farmers.
They certainly want to stop we the citizens from any pushback.
One of the flaws was that the way the question was crafted had many people confused. In the midst of an advertising storm urging No on One, and people being aware that this was precipitated by the abortion fight, they didn’t know which way to vote. I know well educated adults who didn’t get it, thought that voting Yes meant they were voting in favor of the abortion bill that will be on the ballot in November. In addition, the prolife side was outspent by about 5 to 1, mostly with out of state abortion money.
It did not lose 2-1. It lost soundly as I thought it would.
It was heavily pushed as a pro-democracy issue, instead of what it is, an assault on republican style government.
The ballot issue was sound. Ohio has 172 constitutional amendments because anyone with the resources can mount a campaign in the big counties & get a 50% + 1 vote to change the constitution. We have stupid amendments here that are all but impossible to remove.
We will now have abortion through 9 months legal in Ohio, probably by a 53-47% margin.