# Ohio congressional candidate Jill Eaton Simms - eeeegads!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-congressional-candidate-jill-eaton-simms-eeeegads/952273>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [October 10, 2021, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-congressional-candidate-jill-eaton-simms-eeeegads/952273 "2021-10-10T22:29:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2021, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohio-congressional-candidate-jill-eaton-simms-eeeegads/952273/21 "2021-10-12T06:05:49Z")

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> [@Jackmannii](#):
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> There could be potential for splitting up this long-term Democratic district (it used to be represented by Sherrod Brown) among neighboring Republican ones, diluting out the impact of all those Akron-area Democratic voters (Ohio is losing one of its Congressmen). If the 13th District vanishes, then Jill Simms will have to peddle her wares elsewhere.

It’s more than a potential. The district is close to obsolete. It was drawn to be a Democratic vote sink, but the partisan alignment of that region has changed massively since 2011. It’s entirely possible that if this wasn’t a redistricting cycle, it would flip to the GOP under its _current_ boundaries in 2022; it only went for Joe Biden by about 4% in 2020 (Obama won it by 27% in 2012). Tim Ryan saw the writing on the wall and decided to lose a Senate race rather than get pushed out of the House.

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