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Politically, Ohio is considered a swing state. The mixture of urban and rural areas, and the presence of both large blue-collar industries and significant white-collar commercial districts leads to a balance of conservative and liberal population that (together with the state's 20 electoral votes, more than most swing states) makes the state very important to the outcome of national elections. Ohio was a deciding state in the 2004 presidential election between George W. Bush and John Kerry. Bush narrowly won the state's 20 electoral votes by a margin of 2 percentage points and 50.8% of the vote. The state supported Democrat Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, but supported Republican George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004. Ohio was also a deciding factor in the 1948 presidential election when Democrat Harry S. Truman defeated Republican Thomas Dewey (who had won the state four years earlier) and in the 1976 presidential election when Democrat Jimmy Carter defeated Republican Gerald Ford by a slim margin in Ohio and took the election.
Ohio's demographics cause many to consider the state as a microcosm of the nation as a whole. A Republican presidential candidate has never won the White House without winning Ohio, and Ohio has gone to the winner of the election in all but two contests since 1892.
Ohio's demographics cause many to consider the state as a microcosm of the nation as a whole. A Republican presidential candidate has never won the White House without winning Ohio, and Ohio has gone to the winner of the election in all but two contests since 1892.
Elections
Office
State
District
Date
U.S. Senator
2006
Democrat
2,257,369
DeWine, Mike (Inc)
Republican
1,761,037
Other
830
U.S. Senator (Primary)
2006
Democrat
583,776
Democrat
163,628
DeWine, Mike (Inc)
Republican
565,580
Republican
114,186
Republican
108,978
U.S. Senator
2004
Voinovich, George (Inc)Republican
3,464,651
Democrat
1,961,249
Other
296
U.S. Senator (Primary)
2004
Democrat
672,989
Democrat
277,721
Voinovich, George (Inc)Republican
640,082
Republican
195,476
U.S. Senator