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The most important contest in today’s Super Tuesday primary calendar is Ohio.

It is hard to see how Mitt Romney can beat Barack Obama if he can’t do well in the Buckeye State (although Obama was able to lose the state to Hillary Clinton and carry it in the general election).

Ohio is a big, diverse state. It has your typical northern urban center (Cleveland), your typical Midwest big city (Columbus) and a city with Southern sensibilities (Cincinnati). It has a little bit of Appalachia in the east, a bunch of farmland in the west, and a Great Lake to the north. Ohio has a bunch of ethnic tribes, Irish, Polish, Germans, Italians, blacks, Hispanics and blueblood WASPs.

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