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Ohio Shouldn't Matter

Ohio decided the last presidential election and at the very least it's delayed a decision on the Democratic nominee this year.  The economy and NAFTA were apparently the big issues for primary voters in this slowly dying manufacturing state, who get hammered by realities of global market competition....

By Jonathan D. Miller | Updated on March 05, 2008

Ohio decided the last presidential election and at the very least it’s delayed a decision on the Democratic nominee this year.  The economy and NAFTA were apparently the big issues for primary voters in this slowly dying manufacturing state, who get hammered by realities of global market competition.

The candidates can pander all they want about helping people find new jobs in Ohio and other places in the old industrial rustland. But it ain’t going to happen.  Industry doesn’t want to move to these cold places which are pockmarked by brownfields left from relic factories and plants. Most of all they want to avoid union rights states. So if they stay in the higher cost U.S. at all they’ll locate facilities in places like Mobile, Alabama. That’s where Northrop Grumman will be building new super fuel tankers for the military — right smack dab in the middle of a right to work state which happens to have a much more temperate climate than Youngstown. The Pentagon just made that decision last week.

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