Ohio is now more solidly Republican than many other Northern industrial states with no signs of any turning Blue in the near future. (Politico)

I grew up in Northern Ohio, the suburbs of Toledo to be exact. The city and metro area were always Democratic from my recollection. My father, however, was always staunchly Republican and I recall several intense political discussions with family and neighbors and him being the decidedly odd man out. Ohio was always the average American place to live and rode the waves of broader American sentiments regarding religion, politics and the like. No more apparently, after the Obama Presidency, or maybe during, things changed, and Ohio began losing ground in the prosperity department largely due to lower rates of education among its population. As the income and overall wellbeing began falling the politics moved to aggrieved voting category, casting votes against the ‘elites’ that have caused this quagmire of declining quality of living. There is stands, Ohio the Presidential kingmaker no more.