Snollygoster | Ohio's Politics Podcast - Mike Thompson

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Early voting numbers are up compared to 2018 Oct 27, 2022

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Just over a week before the official election day, more than a million Ohioans have voted or requested a mail-in ballot. If you compare this year’s early voting to early voting in the last mid-term election, 40,000 more ballots have been cast.

One poll gives J.D. Vance a slight lead over Tim Ryan Oct 20, 2022

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The race for U.S. Senate remains neck and neck, but there are signs that J.D. Vance is pulling ahead just a bit—at least in one poll.

The debate by the lake Oct 13, 2022

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Democrat Tim Ryan and Republican J.D. Vance stood shoulder to shoulder on a Cleveland TV station this week and argued who was the best person to represent Ohio in the U.S. Senate.

In the home stretch of the 2022 campaign Oct 06, 2022

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It's now just five short weeks until election day and just a week or so before Ohioans can start casting early ballots. The ads are all over TV. Our mailboxes are filling with direct mail. Our inboxes are getting swamped with fundraising e-mails.

The cost of voting in Ohio Sep 29, 2022

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In the latest Cost of Voting Study, which evaluates all 50 states based on what it calls "the overall investment a resident must make in time and resources to vote," Ohio was ranked 41st.

The great debate debate Sep 22, 2022

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All around the country candidates are refusing to participate in the age-old tradition of a live political debate. Most of those refusing to debate or throwing up roadblocks to debates are Republicans.

Six-week abortion ban temporarily blocked Sep 15, 2022

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A surprise ruling by a Hamilton County judge has put Ohio’s six-week abortion ban on hold.

Challenger seeks to unseat Ohio Republican Party leader Sep 01, 2022

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The fall campaign season is usually a time when political parties come together. But this is 2022, and this is Ohio, and 67 days before the election, there is a leadership fight in the Ohio Republican Party.

Ohio Democratic candidates distance themselves from Biden Aug 25, 2022

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It’s a tradition in party politics that goes back generations—candidates forsake the extreme elements of their parties and distance themselves from popularity-challenged party members.On this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from WOSU, hosts Mike Thompson and Steve Brown discuss why candidates "race to the middle" in general elections.

Text messages reveal Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted's role in nuclear bailout law Aug 18, 2022

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Newly-released text messages show that Lt. Gov. Jon Husted worked diligently behind the scenes to pass HB6, the nuclear power plant bailout law. We discuss what this new information means in the ongoing saga of the $60 million bribery scandal that led to multiple arrests and indictments.

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