July 8, 2014
The GOP was smart to choose Cleveland to host the 2016 Republican National Convention, even though, as The Journal’s Reid Epstein points out, that doesn’t mean Republicans can count on carrying Ohio in the presidential election. It is, however, all but certain that without Ohio the GOP would have almost no chance of winning the White House. Ohio is the swingiest of swing states and has been closely divided politically for a century. Its governorship has been passed back and forth between Republicans and Democrats since 1899, with neither party holding it for more than eight years.Please click here to read the full article.