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.
I would argue that holding a referendum in a state is unconstitutional. You can't do that on the federal level. So the same should apply to the states. We live in a republic, not a direct democracy.