Election Day 2023: Voters to Offer Clues on Abortion Politics and 2024 in Off-Year Election
Election Day 2023: Voters to Offer Clues on Abortion Politics and 2024 in Off-Year Election
Key contests and ballot questions are being decided in Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia and Mississippi. Our reporters are at the polls.
It's actually a really big election year for us in Ohio. We're voting on legalizing abortion and weed in the state, which is insane for an "off-year" election. What's even more crazy is that both look likely to pass.
We voted at 10 am, and this is the first year I've seen so many young women at our location. There's been so much advocacy for issue one that I'm very hopeful.
I really hope 1 and 2 both pass. I always vote on election day because I like the ceremony of it. Unfortunately I got so sick yesterday into today that I can't even stand for more than a couple minutes without feeling like I'm gonna pass out. Maybe I'll start early voting now.
Not to put a damper on some of the excitement for Andy's win in Kentucky but I don't think it's as good a predictor for 2024 as the reporting makes it seem. Kentucky has elected 2 Republican governors in my lifetime, both were deeply unpopular one term governors who were succeeded by someone named Beshear. For basically ever other statewide office and for national offices Kentucky has been reliably Republican since 2000, but we elect Democrats for Governor.
https://www.nga.org/former-governors/kentucky/
Paul Patton 2024