The world’s oldest political party set an all-time record Tuesday night, with 12 presidential candidates on a single stage in Westerville, Ohio. That’s a suburb of Columbus, the fastest-growing big metro area in the Midwest, in Franklin County, which voted Republican in every presidential election but one for a half century (1944-92) but has voted Democratic in the six elections since.
It’s an apt location for a party increasingly dependent on and dominated by white college graduate voters even as it has lost ground in heartland factory towns and blue-collar precincts.
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