Ohio has been a bellwether and a battleground: What is it telling us now?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : Biden was able to reclaim several states Trump had won in 2016 in the Great Lakes region -- Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
68% : Given that Trump was losing to Biden by about 4.5 points nationwide, the resulting gap between Ohio and the nation in terms of these candidates was a stunning 12.5 points.
60% : Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on Oct. 27, 2016 at the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio.
57% : The 2020 presidential election cycle began with Trump enjoying a typical incumbent edge over challengers from the opposition party.
57% : Most observers attributed Moreno's dominant win to his endorsement from Trump.
56% : How did Trump manage to hold on and maintain a comfortable margin in a state that has long been an Election Night nail-biter?
53% : Even without incumbency, Trump has maintained a higher approval in Ohio than he has nationally since leaving office, and the most recent polls show him leading Biden in a rematch by double digits.
50% : At the time, Ohio Democrats remembered having won the state twice with Barack Obama and twice with Bill Clinton.
43% : Perhaps this longtime bellwether state that had seen so many close contests had simply lost its electoral heart to Trump.
26% : The Ohio margin and outcome were overshadowed at the time by dramatic events in other states that Biden did manage to wrest from Trump and which were subsequently disputed by Trump and his partisans.
8% : In that year, Ohio gave a solid majority of its vote to then-incumbent president Donald Trump, yet Trump still lost to Joe Biden in the national vote and the Electoral College.

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