Voters in the Republican-dominated state of Ohio elected a Democrat to the governor’s seat for the first time in two decades in one of this year’s most publicized and hotly contested races.
Dr. Amy Acton, who previously served in the administration of the incumbent Republican governor, Mike DeWine, defeated the Republican nominee, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, in the Nov. 3 election.
Her victory comes with historic firsts. Acton, 60, is the first woman elected as governor in the Buckeye State. Acton will also be the first Jewish governor of Ohio.
And she is the first Democrat elected to the position since Gov. Ted Strickland won in 2006; he left office in 2011, and Republicans had kept control since then….