Liberal Governor for Ohio

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Ohio has its first Democratic governor in 20 years, and if I'm not mistaken, it's the first female governor ever. I need to be very to the point right now and say I am an independent. I am not a Democrat or a Republican. I have voted both ways. I feel like Ramaswamy would have won if it weren't for his smear campaign against Acton. What he did was low. If you haven't heard about it, he endorsed an ad with Acton's mother saying she's a liar, etc. The biggest issue with that is that Acton's mother hasn't been in her life since she was a child. Her mother's then-husband or boyfriend I don't remember which raped Acton as a child, and when he was due to go to court, the mother ran off with him. Acton and her brother were then left in foster care. She had a very rough upbringing due to having a terrible mother, so the fact that Ramaswamy would use the abusive mom as an ad campaign is wrong on so many levels. People then made a big deal that she didn't take his call when he called to congratulate her. She said she didn't owe him anything. She isn't wrong. What he did was low. She shouldn't be forced to suddenly take his call just because he wanted to congratulate her after what he put her through. This isn't about her hating conservatives. She speaks kindly of Dewine even though he endorsed Ramawamy, but even Dewine said that what Ramawamy did was wrong. I honestly believe that ad is part of the reason he lost. What really takes the cake is that Trump said that he supported what Ramaswamy did and would have done the same thing, and said Dewine was a traitor to the party for not agreeing with it, which just baffled me. You should never have to resort to such low tactics to win. Bringing up someone's traumatic childhood is a new kind of low. It doesn't matter what party you are. If that's how you need to win, you shouldn't win, and he clearly didn't. I'm hoping Acton makes the kind of changes our state needs. We need better healthcare, we need better schools, and we need a real change. People are complaining that she only won 15 counties out of our 88, but they were the counties with the biggest populations and the most people. This isn't like the presidential election, where we use an electoral college. The governor is elected based on how many people vote, so even though the majority of the counties had a higher percentage of Republican votes, people in those counties still voted Democrat, making Acton's number higher. Those same people whining about how 15 counties voted for 88 are the same people who get mad when the popular vote isn't the same as the electoral votes. When the popular vote is for their presidential pick and the electoral vote isn't in their favor, they get angry, but they'll complain about this when it really is a vote for a vote. We can place blame however we want, but when your entire campaign is to bring down someone else, then you don't deserve to be governor. I have always hated how during elections it's always about what the competition is doing wrong instead of establishing everything they'll do to help.