Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast today is Wednesday, August 9th, 2023.

I'm John Pondhorz, the editor of Commentary Magazine with me is always executive editor,

A. Greenwald. Hi, Abe.

Hi, John.

Media commentary columnist, an American enterprise institute senior fellow Christine Rosen.

Hi, Christine.

Hi, John.

And Christine's colleague at AEI and our Washington commentary columnist, Matthew Cotton,

Eddie. Hi, Matt.

Hi, John.

As we talked about yesterday, Ohio voted in a special election on a ballot initiative

that the, let's just put it this way, that if you voted, no, you were probably pro-choice

and wanted to leave the state constitution as it was. And if you voted, yes,

you were probably pro-life and wanted to change the state constitution to make a ballot

referendum in November harder to become law involving abortion. And in the end,

the people who wanted to leave the constitutional referendum rules as they were,

pro-choice side one, by a landslide. And not only did they win by a landslide, but turnout

was insanely high. It looks like it was around 2.8 million, and to give you a context,

in the midterm election, meaning the November 2014 midterm election, which granted,

was a low turnout midterm election. But we're talking here about a Tuesday,

in August, which is not exactly a time you expect. High turnout. In 2014, turnout,

according to our friend Dave Wagle, was 3.1 million in Ohio, and yesterday, it was 2.8 million.

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