Democratic and labor forces won the day in Ohio on Tuesday. Voters turned back SB 5, a law that stripped many collective bargaining rights from public employees, which Republican proponents argued was necessary to keep state and local budgets under control. Conservatives won on Issue 3, a symbolic health care vote on the individual insurance mandate coming in 2014, but it wasn’t contested nor will have it have an effect on policy in the state. So with victory in hand, Dems celebrated in Columbus.
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