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Ohio voters head to the polls in a toss-up contest, a dress rehearsal for the midterm election

WASHINGTON - Two types of voters have gotten outsized scrutiny in the run-up to this year's midterm election - blue-collar whites who moved to Donald Trump in 2016 and college-educated suburbanites who have shunned the president ever since.

Ohio's 12th Congressional District has big batches of both, which is one reason Tuesday's special election there has commanded attention from strategists in both parties, even though the winner will fill the seat for only a few months.

Another reason: Democrats, once again, have a decent chance of winning an election

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