Days after Ohio voters passed Issue 1 and codified abortion rights into Ohio’s constitution, Republicans are not accepting the election results.
In a new, unhinged press release issued by the Ohio House Republican Committee, GOP members rant that “foreign billionaires” impacted the election results and call the results tainted by so-called “foreign interference.” It is unclear what they are referring to.
Ohio voters overwhelmingly voted ‘Yes’ on Issue 1 by a margin of 56.6% to 43.4%.
The press release further argues that the results of the election do not invalidate a 6-week abortion ban previously passed by the Ohio Legislature and that “no amendment can overturn the God given rights with which we were born.”
56-43 is a bit more than 6%, although I’m no mathematician
6% away from 50-50.
Your concept of the math is wrong. A two-thirds majority, where twice as many people have one opinion versus the other, has only a 17% difference from 50/50. The problem with looking at it like that is you ignore half the spread between opinions and that becomes more pronounced the greater the margin. Having 30% more supporters on one side than the other ( the math: 56.6÷(100-56.6)) is pretty significant, if not overwhelming. I’d say it was more than okay, and Ohio’s constitution says it’s more than enough.
Thanks for trying to explain rather than saying I’m apparently commenting in bad faith.