Vanity Fair article on Tim Ryan

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8. He is from Youngstown

The eastern counties of Ohio on the Penn. line were Democratic. Ohio has 88 counties, a Democrat has won Ohio with about a dozen counties. The smokestack industries ran with unionised labor. Much of that is gone, and there is anger left behind. Ryan has long been ambitious, and he sees that he needs this demographic to get a majority.

Ryan is an handsome candidate with charisma, Vance is not. Vance is an arrogant capitalist who has been playing up to white evangelicals. Ryan can win in old Ohio; if Ohio is eastern Indiana, or a southern state--he loses.