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Robert McColley: “We decided to make a conscious effort with this to draw a…”

Featuring: Robert McColley, Republican | Ohio State Senate, District 1

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Leading Edge Interview with State Senator Rob McCauley on Ohio Redistricting

Published | Video Starts at 01:32

And what the voters expected out of that is that they've gotten tired of districts being so polarized in one direction or the other and no districts really being up for grabs in any given election. And so We decided to make a conscious effort with this to draw a map that has six districts that would lean Republican, seven districts that would be legitimately competitive districts, and then two districts that would lean Democrat. And so what that really translates to is that in these districts, of course, in all the districts, this is going to be the key. (01:32–01:56)

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Asserts the intention behind the redistricting map to create six Republican-leaning, seven competitive, and two Democrat-leaning districts.

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