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A 2012 Washington Post headline read, "Why Ohio is the most important state in the country." That year, President Barack Obama defeated Republican Mitt Romney by almost 3 percentage points.
Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican nominee for vice president, campaigns in his hometown of Middletown on July 22, 2024. If elected, Vance would become the first Ohio-born VP in nearly 100 years.
For decades, Ohio was a key swing state and bellwether predicting presidential winners from 1964-2016 - the longest streak of any state in recent history. But in 2024, the state's 17 electoral ...
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Ohio, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1803, Ohio has participated in every U.S. presidential election. For most of its statehood from the Twentieth century on, Ohio has been considered a swing state , being won by either the Democratic or Republican candidates ...
In United States presidential elections, each state is free to decide the method by which its electors to the Electoral College will be chosen. To increase its voting power in the Electoral College system, every state, with the exceptions of Maine and Nebraska, has adopted a winner-take-all system, where the candidate who wins the most popular votes in a state wins all of that state's ...
Both candidates campaigned heavily throughout the state in hopes of winning its 20 electoral votes. As no Republican has ever won the presidency without winning Ohio, it was seen in particular as a "must-win" state for McCain. George W. Bush's narrow wins in 2000 (by 3.51% against Al Gore) and 2004 (2.10% against John Kerry) proved critical in ...
A swing state or battleground state is one where the U.S. presidential candidates have similar levels of support between the Democratic and Republican parties and can therefor be won by either one.
Political control of Ohio has oscillated between the two major parties. Republicans outnumber Democrats in Ohio government. The governor, Mike DeWine, is a Republican, as are all other non-judicial statewide elected officials: Lieutenant Governor of Ohio Jon A. Husted, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, Ohio State Auditor Keith Faber, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose and Ohio State Treasurer ...