Robert B. Hubbell -Turnout matters. Don’t let anyone ever try to convince you otherwise... Republicans scheduled the vote on Issue 1 in August because turnout in August special elections is miserably low by historical standards. Republicans hoped they could scrape together a modest turnout by Republicans in August to prevent the majority of Ohioans from exercising their right to change their constitution.

But Republicans were wrong in assuming that Democrats would not turn out for a special election in August. Democrats rose to the challenge by turning out in record numbers. Although the results are not final, Republicans also turned out in historic numbers, but Democrats turned out in even greater numbers. That is a mirror image of the 2020 victory by Biden: Trump garnered more votes than any incumbent president in history but Biden won because more Democrats turned out to vote than did Republicans.

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