Republicans dealt huge blow in Ohio election

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Most voters last November considered abortion to be a defining factor in their decision to vote, according to polls, ranking behind only inflation in terms of importance in surveys conducted by CNN, ABC News, CBS News and the Washington Post.
49% : Though he had denied Issue 1 was about abortion, he later owned up to it during remarks at a Lincoln Day dinner in May, telling attendees that the August vote was "100 percent about keeping a radical pro-abortion amendment out of our Constitution."
47% : According to exit polling in the 2022 midterm elections, most voters -- including a majority of independents -- believed abortion should continue to be legal, and was determined to be a driving factor in a large portion of voters' decision-making.
30% :One year earlier, two of Ohio's neighboring states -- deep-red Kentucky and the traditional battleground of Michigan -- voted to codify abortion into their constitutions, while a previous effort to outlaw abortion via constitutional amendment in the conservative state of Kansas was defeated by a 20-point margin last year.

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