Clear politics, that looks at the average of the polls in ohio. Right now with 18 electoral votes, it is essentially a dead heat, with joe biden at 46 on average, the president at 45 . Why is it so competitive, 3. 5 months before the election . Think iteve, i mean, i is there are a number of things happening at once. You are seeing a major shift in the suburbs of ohio that a few decades ago or even a year ago, these suburbs outside of cincinnati, columbus, and cleveland, they were the base of the republican party. That is how a john kasich would have been elected or even a george bush. Those suburbs are now blue. It is largely women voters, old moderate voters, saying this is not a party we were a part of, and they are voting blue. They voted for Sherrod Brown. They voted for democratic mayors and councilmembers, and they are not going to vote for donald trump is november. If you take away the old base of the republican party, and it is tossup or either democrat, which it is, that make
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Steve why is it so competitive before . Major youre seeing a shift in the suburbs of ohio that just a few decades ago or years ago, these suburbs outside cincinnati and columbus and cleveland, they were the base of the republican party. Thats how john kasich would have been elected, or even george bush. Those suburbs are largely blue. They are saying this is not the party we were a part of and they have left and they are voting blue for statehouse seats, sheriff brown, democratic mayors and councilmembers, and theyre not going to vote for donald trump this november. You take away the old base of the republican party, and it is tossup or either democrat, which it is, that makes ohio a much tougher state for republicans. That means they have to run up in the rural parts of the state, but these suburbs are a large voting bloc in the state of ohio, some republicans have really lost their old base. The second thing that has happened is the ohio economy, before covid, was already struggling.
Investigation. Meanwhile, San Francisco police are trying to determine why specific employees were targeted during the rampage. They have seized a journal lam kept at his home in the Inner Richmond district of San Francisco as well as a computer as they continue the probe. Jackson joins us now to delve into this. Jackson, i know you mentioned it at the top of the story but do you have any idea why the exiting workers are e beibeing screened . Reporter thats still a mystery. We know employees rarely made it through with no detection but still unclear about theft or other issues, they were screening people as they exited the building. Its just a mystery why a process designed to prevent such an incident could get so out of hand. All right. Jackson, we appreciate your investigation. Im sure youll have more on the story coming up in the next few months. Jackson has been at the forefront of the story on air and online since the beginning and that includes the first report tore break news th
More than 30 years at can it have you reported on some of the biggest stories in recent history in the bay area. Now Rita Williams is retiring. L to the popes visit dramatic rescues and child disappearance case some of the remarkable stories during her long career. Up next on a second look. Hello everyone im Frank Summerville welcome to a second look tonight we dedicate this edition of the second look to our colleague Rita Williams who is retiring. Sheets been a reporter here at ktvu for more than 30 years. One of the stories was the loma free today earthquake in 1989. A woman died when the car she was driving crashed into the hole in the upper deck. Also in that car was the womans brotherinlaw. And a year later rita went back to talk to the man who survived. Reporter a survivor, he knows hes lucky to be alive but what happened on the bay bridge last october 17th changed his life forever. This i dont know my future is going to be. Reporter this is why his future is uncertain. When the