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In Ohio, voters don’t register with a political party. But they choose an affiliation if they vote in a Democratic or Republican primary election.

Those blue and red voters actually make up only about 30% of Ohio’s 8 million registered voters: 817,063 Democrats compared to 1.5 million Republicans.

But Republicans have consistently outpaced Democrats in primary votes for nearly a decade. In 2016, 63% of voters pulled GOP ballots. In 2022, when both parties had competitive primaries for U.S. Senate, nearly twice as many Ohioans pulled Republican ballots as Democratic ones.

This follows a national trend.

A recent New York Times analysis found Democrats lost about 2.

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