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Is Ohio in Play? GOP Tilt Working Against Democrats

Associated Press

   COLUMBUS, OHIO - Chris Gagin says he hasn't changed much politically,
   even as so much around him has.

   The attorney from rural Belmont County, Ohio, became a Republican in
   2013 after Democrats embraced environmental policies that he believed
   were detrimental to the area's coal mining and fracking industries. As
   an anti-abortion-rights, pro-gun conservative, he felt unwelcome.

   "Conservative Democrats have become all but extinct," said Gagin, who
   served for a time as county Republican chairman. He's among many former
   Democrats in blue-collar Ohio who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and
   for an all-GOP statewide ticket last year. Those ballots helped turn
   large swaths of territory along the Ohio River -- places that supported
   Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama -- from blue to bright red.
   

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