When I took a look at the numbers from the recent OH-02 race, I was more or less shocked to see that Hackett had won the rural counties (Brown, Scioto, Adams, Pike). As most of us now know, the race was lost in the suburb/exurb land of Hamilton, Warren and Clermont.
Naturally, I've spent the better part of the last three days trying to make sense of what this means, politically. Aren't the folks out in Brown county the crazy wingnuts that vote on "morals" first, policy second? I have a theory.
I'll attribute it to the rise of the 401K.
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