Hamilton County has gone "Blue" in a partisan sense. Compared to other urban counties, it is NOT as close and there are many more moderate voters that in certain races will easily split tickets. For the Prosecutor's race the Republicans have had the edge for a long time. This year is setting up to be one that the Democratic candidate has a very good chance of winning, with Joe Deters not on the ballot.
The most interesting thing I am seeing so far: All of the statehouse races in Hamilton County will be contested by both parties.
National politics is something that is very difficult to write about. State wide politics is also something that is difficult to write about for a large state like Ohio. I have no plans to write much about the Ohio Senate race as there is little I can add.
The only thing I may play with is using the State wide Voter Registration datasets. I have linked in year end datasets and I plan on working on some statewide data. I think getting turnout rates based on generation would be most interesting information I could compile. In Hamilton County I have been doing this for years now, but seeing how different it would be statewide or for certain types of counties. I don't have a profile created for all counties, but I could come up with some general variations.
I will be thinking about other topics to write about. This blog used to be more active with more snark and more traditional political banter. This blog is now almost 22 years old. I used to care about being in the trenches, bare knuckle punching policy, parties, and pols. I don't give shit about that. When I argue on something I am like a dog with a bone, I don't let it go. I think it is better to avoid arguing. Discussing, sharing ideas, maybe even debating can be good and high level. On social media, it is not not. On a blog, it can be better. There can be depth, there can be facts and support. There can be a pause to reflect before one just reacts. I am going to be thinking about other topics to write about.
Media has been something I long have cared about. Locally, the news media is dying. There are good journalism going on, but we just have failures going on in what is being covered and we have so much garbage journalism. I don't think there is much I can write about that. The causes are evident to me and no one is willing to change, as the average person is the problem with the media and the average jane and joe are too lazy to change or learn anything. It is like we are doomed and I don't know the value of that. Maybe there is some data to collect on who and what media exists. Maybe there is something I can add. I will try, but as I age my expectations don't expand like my waist.
