Connie has been a shining light for a while and it's good to see her in a leadership role. I've seen a lot more organized activity in the past 6 months then in the past 6 years. Better communication, better GOTV activity at the events, more diverse events that draw bigger crowds.
That said, Hamilton County has a key issue that the Dem will have to address, IMHO. What I call "the West Side Issue". Hard core red. There are 3 county wide elected Dems and one of them, Dennis Driehaus (sister of former Congressman Steve Driehaus) comes from a hard core entrenched West Side political family. She would have won running on the Pastafarian Ticket...lol. County Dems have to do something to crack into the West Side on issues that matter vs. simply personality.
The West Side is Steve Chabot land. Not only do they elect him year after year but they genuinely admire him and his positions. He doesn't win because he's the R running - he wins because he IS who they are. Interesting thing about Chabot's race this year is that OH-1 was gerrymander into kind of a dumbbell district with the West Side on one side and the fast growing Northeast 'burbs on the other - connected by an expressway for all practical purposes. When they drew the lines, I don't think anyone saw the explosive growth in the NE burbs and even the R's up there are sane (vs. the West Side).
I think Aftab - a young corporate lawyer who connects well with the NE burbs has a great chance to take advantage of that number shift and pull in a lot of the center folks who leaned Trump in 2016 but have been embarrassed once too often. Said another way - NE burbs went trump but they're not his "MAGA base" so they might be flippable.
Good to see we've got a new energized team on the ground.
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