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Originally Posted by iheartthed
That may be true. Ohio was the only Great Lakes state that elected a new Republican governor after 2016. But even still, Ohio's most recent Republican governors both seem to fit the mold of northern state Republicans: center-right fiscal conservatives. Nothing like the nutjobs down South.
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Kasich was pretty far to the right (he tried to bust up unions and was open/sympathetic to Tea Party ideas) and let's not forget that John Boehner was Speaker of the House. Compared to Trump, Kasich looks like a moderate. You want real, legit Rockefeller Republicans, look at Massachusetts and the rest of New England.
DeWine's from (or worked in?) Cincinnati, which has its own special breed of right wing jackassery compared to the rest of Ohio (despite Hamilton County being relatively blue since at least/about 2008).
And then there's the ongoing saga of (former?) Ohio Speaker of the House Larry Householder.
I really shouldn't be throwing stones, since my adopted home state of Arizona is a glass house full of its own goofball political fuckery.