Who knew that Ohio would vote to the right of Texas?
I suspected that might be the case for awhile, but shifted my predictions when polling numbers started to tighten in Ohio, and Texas started to move out of reach.
Still proud of Harris (+12.4% Clinton) and Fort Bend (+6.7% Clinton) Counties for building the foundation of a new competitive Texas in 2020. Although, I faced some heat on the forum for claiming that Harris would be +10-15% (D) this cycle and Fort Bend would flip (Look at the Asian-American TX exit poll numbers), I take no joy, and college educated Anglos appears to be the critical element in the Trump TX electoral coalition that brought Montgomery County (Suburban Houston) as well as Collins and Denton (DFW) and Williamson (Austin area) back into the 7-9% Republican fold, as opposed to a 3-4% Republican win with the Texas endgame.
Am still disappointed in my former home-state of Ohio, especially the collapse of the New Deal Democratic coalition in the Mahoning Valley, that fought and died to bring the Union into the Steel Mills, Rubber Plants, and Industrial Unionism to the region in the 1930s, that bought into the concept that Trump will somehow miraculously be able to bring decent manufacturing jobs back, where so many other Presidents have tried and failed.
