"When you do everything you can to rig an election and still lose, you have a problem. Voters in Ohio told the state’s Republican Party on Tuesday that it has a big problem, and they sent that message to the GOP nationwide. …

[I]f Issue 1’s defeat was a statement about abortion rights, it was also a harsh judgment against the anti-majoritarian politics that Republicans are practicing in many states they control."

~ E.J. Dionne

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/08/ohio-referendum-abortion-republicans/