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Every state that is not deep blue is not Alaska levels of red. Ohio and much of the mid west is moderately red or moderately blue depending on the policies in
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
Every state that is not deep blue is not Alaska levels of red.
Ohio and much of the mid west is moderately red or moderately blue depending on the policies in question so you get middle of the road policy like this that isn't hard-line one way or the other but appeals to the tons of people on both sides of the isle who think big tech is f-ed up right now.
While this move might alienate people on the far right for being a violation of a business's right to freely associate and far left for failing to go far enough, it's kind of a no brainier if you want to appeal to people who want something done and don't care which side of the isle that something is from is as long as it's not too extreme. Big tech is getting out of control according to many on both sides and utilities are an existing legal framework for regulating big but essential consumer facing business.
I don't know exactly how the Ohio state government is formed but it's also highly likely that this is political maneuvering by the AG or the executive branch and they expect it go nowhere.
- mikey_p 5y agoOhio GOP have really ramped up their rhetoric in the last year or so, including their attacks on their own like the infighting with Dewine over how he handled the states response to covid.
- jonny_eh 5y ago> Every state that is not deep blue is not Alaska levels of red Maybe not the state, but the Republican leadership is. There are vanishingly few moderate Republicans left in any office in the country.
- api 5y agoMike DeWine in Ohio is fairly reasonable and was among those whose lips were not attached to Trump's behind, but now the Republican base in rural Ohio is angry at him about that.
- ihumanable 5y agoYea, the Ohio Republican Party has rewarded DeWine's reasonable approach to the pandemic by his party threatening to impeach him (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/republican-ohio-gov-dewine-faces-impeachment-calls-gop-rebels-over-n1249548 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/republican-ohio-gov-dew...) strip him of his executive power (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/ohio-republicans-defy-their-governor-limiting-his-power-manage-pandemic-n1261989 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/ohio-republicans-...) and their leader, trump, has called for him to be challenged in a primary (https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/11/16/trump-pushes-primary-challenge-against-dewine-showing-risk-to-republicans-who-break-with-him/?sh=b0e31e97ed9c https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/11/16/trump...). His great crime was that he listened to a medical doctor, implemented pretty reasonable common-sense strategies, and for a while did a pretty good job keeping Ohio's pandemic rates low.
- LatteLazy 5y ago"Something has to be done, and this is something!"
- selimthegrim 5y agoLook into HB6 and you will see the red is bought and paid for by the energy utilities no matter how pellucid.
- onlyrealcuzzo 5y agoExcept we don't really have politicians anymore - just parties. Politicians vote in unison now more than ever. So even if the voters of the state are pretty evenly split politically - whichever party is in power of the state is pretty much all that matters.