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Ohio governor race turns personal ahead of midterms

The Ohio governor's race between Republican Vivek Ramaswamy and Democrat Amy Acton has become deeply personal and negative, characterized by attack ads from both campaigns.

The question

Who would you vote for?

Ramaswamy 35%Acton 65%

43 players picked a side before playing.

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The best arguments

Written by Agora players and ranked by Agora's AI reasoning score. Shown without names.

  • She has plenty of government experience. She has worked as director of the Ohio Department of Health. As a doctor and pediatrician also, she is well suited to address the issue of healthcare, which is recognized on both sides as an issue that needs to be addressed right now. She also has the critically valuable experience of growing up as a regular person. She is keenly aware of the effect that the opioid epidemic is having on Ohioans and is positioned to address that.

    A player · strong argument

  • There is no immediate economic impact of pausing the construction of data centers. The vast majority of jobs that data centers provide are temporary, with on average 30 jobs being permanent per data center. If anything, it will provide economic relief for people struggling with electricity costs.

    A player · strong argument

  • There is no specific Acton policy addressing that policy. However there does seem to be overlap in some of the two candidates promises. Mainly reducing taxes, and providing credits for everyday services, such as school for Ramaswamy and healthcare for Acton. The major departure and concern is the data centers, which is why pausing them for now is a useful way to attract more bipartisan support. Overall, while both candidates are engaging in tactics that are unseemly, they do seem to have more alike in policies than not.

    A player · decent argument

  • Which is why voting for Acton is the smartest decision. Data centers are an unproven technology that should not have state money spent on it. They are also something that is known that most Americans, across all political leanings to be disliked. Ramaswamy's data center leanings exemplify that he is corporate first, not people first.

    A player · decent argument

  • Data center returns fundamentally lower taxes through the fact that one, the Ohio government doesn't simply accumulate money, and two, the policy in which data center construction is encouraged, direct spending on services by the government are not increased. Based on the two premises, it is necessarily true that taxes would lower for citizens. The manner in which the taxes are lowered is up to separate policy, though it is expected that tax rates would generally decrease across the board. An improvement to Ramaswamy's policy is to shift the tax reduction to focus on working families so that they directly see significant benefits of data center returns.

    A player · decent argument

  • Well we know that the datacenter implementations themselves will be an immediate defecit, however I believe that local revenue sources we can focus on would be utilizing relief for those in need and shifting school budgets and funding back to the state

    A player · decent argument

  • Acton is in support of a conditional data center moratorium, which would save families money on electricity and retain property value. Her policies are in the best interest of Ohio's voters.

    A player · decent argument

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  1. Two truths and a lie. Click the lie.
  2. Where are Ramaswamy and Acton running for governor?
  3. Match the face to the policy
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