President Barack Obama won the state in both 2008 and 2012 but the polls are giving Trump the edge this year. It’s one of a number of formerly Democrat leaning states where many blue collar voters feel left behind by Democrats. I was in Youngstown, Ohio last week talking to business leaders and they are deeply unhappy with Obama’s legacy and worried that Clinton will just be more of the same. They blame trade policies for the collapse of industry; this used to be steel country. “I’d vote for Donald Duck before I’d vote for her,” Bill Strimbu, president of local trucking firm Nick Strimbu, told me.

Source: The Guardian November 08, 2016 08:14 UTC