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    Ohio is used to picking the president. Will they this time?

    Oct 15, 2019 5 minutes
    On her front porch in Westerville, Ohio, Valerie Cumming holds a yard sign from the 2017 city council race she won, Oct. 8, 2019. Westerville is the latest suburb to turn blue, but the state’s rural areas and eastern Appalachian counties have been racing further red.

    When Valerie Cumming heard that the Democratic Party wanted to hold its fourth presidential primary debate in Westerville, she thought it was a prank.

    “It [blew] my mind. I mean, I’m thrilled, it’s like Christmas to me – but I think it’s hilarious that the first three debates were in Miami and Houston and Detroit, and the fourth one is in Westerville,” says Ms. Cumming, who serves as vice mayor for the Columbus suburb. “I don’t think it would have happened here 10 years ago, or even five years ago.”

    Two years ago, Ms. Cumming and another progressive Democrat won seats on the Westerville City Council – an unthinkable prospect for an area long considered a bastion of Republicanism in Ohio, but a shift that matched the national trend of white, wealthy suburban voters fleeing

    Swing no longerShifting suburbs

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