The inflammatory language targeting a reproductive rights measure on Ohioās fall ballot is the type of messaging that is common in the closing weeks of a highly contested initiative campaign ā warning of āabortion on demandā or ādismemberment of fully conscious childrenā if voters approve it.
Only the messaging isnāt just coming from the anti-abortion groups that oppose the constitutional amendment. Itās being promoted on the official government website of the Republican-controlled Ohio Senate.
And because the source is a government website, the messaging is being prioritized in online searches for information about Issue 1, the question going before Ohio voters Nov. 7 to enshrine abortion access in the state Constitution.
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2010 hit the ODP extremely hard. They werenāt amazing prior to then, but itās been a disaster after 2010.
Since that loss, the Ohio Democratic Party is famously bad at everything. Youāre thinking, probably, that I mean theyāre bad at their jobs. No. Theyāre bad at everything. Their cookouts even suck.
My family is deeply embedded in the ODP. Itās failure all the way down. Not even corrupt (on the political spectrum) justā¦ a bizarre combination of ākid who didnāt do the reading ad libbing in classā and ātotally convinced of their own ability to win without effortā- only they lose fucking constantly
Edit: I will literally never donate to the Ohio Democratic Party until they have a huge shakeup in leadership, and this opinion gets me in hot water with my family constantly. Iāve had some tense holidays, with people whose politics I 99% share -thatās how much I mean it.
Scumbags. Donāt fall for it, Ohio.
I live here.
Iām not optimistic.
Polling is actually looking extremely good. Like most successful initiatives in Ohio, this was an independent effort and has a big grass roots swell of support.
Not a slam dunk by any means, but itās looking positive
https://www.bw.edu/news/2023/fall/10-bw-ohio-pulse-poll-shows-ohio-voters-favor-issues-1-and-2
Very few undecideds is a very good thing.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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And because the source is a government website, the messaging is being prioritized in online searches for information about Issue 1, the question going before Ohio voters Nov. 7 to enshrine abortion access in the state Constitution.
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āItās a really strategic way to make something appear to be neutral information and fact when thatās not the reality,ā said Laura Manley, executive director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Under Googleās search quality evaluator guidelines, government sites are generally given added weight on the grounds that they present trustworthy, verifiable, authoritative content in the interest of the common good.
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But of course, the mainstream media wonāt pick this up because itās factually incorrect and basically lies,ā said Democratic state Sen. Bill DeMora, whose caucus was angered by the blog and its home on the Senateās official page.
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John Fortney, spokesman for the state Senateās majority Republicans, said āOn The Recordā doesnāt cost the public anything because itās hosted on an existing government platform and is put together by his staff.
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āThereās a difference between delivering a campaign speech to an anti-abortion group and putting these kinds of narratives on an official government website thatās designed to inform voters,ā said Ziegler, a leading historian on the abortion debate.
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