Battleground Breakdown

Decoding Ohio’s 2024 Election Outcome

Read part one here, part two here and part three here. Ohio reaffirmed its rightward trajectory in the 2024 election, with former president Donald Trump...

What Safe-State Status Means for Ohio

In the third installment of Midstory’s series “Battleground Breakdown,” we look at how Ohio’s newfound Republican lean and proximity to this year’s battlegrounds of Michigan and Pennsylvania affects the state’s politics and voter turnout.

How American’s Quintessential Battleground Broke Down

This video is a feature of Battleground Breakdown, a series where we examine how 2020 ended Ohio’s decades-long streak of picking the winner of...

How the 2020 Election Changed Ohio’s Political Identity

How Ohio's six million votes cast were spread across the state and what demographic shifts may be influencing its political trajectory.

How America’s Quintessential Battleground Broke Down

As Ohio goes, so goes the nation. At least, it used to. The Buckeye State — the seventh most populous and 34th in size among the...

The Highs and Lows of Midwest Voter Turnout

The Midwest is often portrayed as one homogeneous region — “Flyover Country,” a part of America synonymous with corn fields, simple niceties and a...

The 2020 Election Dilemma: How Ohio has Handled Voting During the Pandemic

The 2020 presidential election stands to be one of the most complex and highly anticipated U.S. elections in recent history, primarily because the pandemic...

Abbott’s Absence: Faithless Electors and the Politics of Change in the Buckeye State

It’s 1812. Despite attaining statehood only nine years ago, Ohio is quickly becoming an important political force. Thanks to a rapidly growing population (including...

Voting in the Midwest: The Transformative Force of Race and Class

At first glance, the Midwest seems to be undergoing an electoral shift to the right. This change in voting attitudes manifested itself in 2016; in a single election, many Midwestern states—with the exception of Illinois and Minnesota—flipped from “blue” to “red” on the electoral map. But the region’s electoral history shows a much more complicated position.

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