Ohio Republicans Lose Support of County They've Held for Over 100 Years
Voters in Ohio have rejected state Republicans' attempt to make it more difficult for citizens to amend their constitution, a move that was widely ...
Voters in Ohio have rejected state Republicans' attempt to make it more difficult for citizens to amend their constitution, a move that was widely interpreted as aimed at blocking a key vote on abortion rights in November. Crucially, among the districts who voted "no" to Issue 1, a GOP-back proposal that would have raised the threshold required to pass ballot measures from a simple majority to a supermajority of 60 percent, was Delaware County—a place that has been a Republican bastion for over a century.