Swing State Project has a guide to Ohio’s House Races out today with helpful notes on each district’s makeup. The whole thing is worth checking out, but just a few names readers might recognize:
OH-15 (Orange): Steve Stivers (R)
This district is designed with Stivers in mind and is very similar to the neighboring 12th: a quarter of Franklin County attached seven exurban and rural counties that voted 3:2 for McCain. If Stivers came within a few hundered votes of winning a fairly strong Obama district in ‘08, this one should be easy for him.
Note: I don’t know which of my districts Mary Jo Kilroy lives in, but she’d face an uphill fight in any of them. Also, while it is still possible to gerrymander Franklin County into 4 GOP seats, by 2020 it may be wiser to consolidate central Columbus into one safely Democratic district.[…]
OH-06 (Teal): Charlie Wilson (D) vs. Zack Space (D) vs. Generic R
The new 6th, in the southeast of the state, is made up of the most conservative parts of the current 6th and 18th. Thus, Charlie Wilson and Zack Space are heading for a primary fight on a rather level playing field. The winner of this hard-fought contest will emerge to take on a Republican in a 56% McCain district with a lot of territory unfamiliar to him. Not an impossible hold, but a tough one for Democrats in a region sliding away from them.





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