Letters: Childless cat lady apologies to the world for Trump election

I am getting so tired of hearing the same story: “The American voter is crazy for electing Trump!” I have been a moderate Republican my whole life and Trump stole my party; I don’t like the man.
Instead of blaming the electorate for electing him, you should be upset with the Democratic Party for promoting a candidate who was not ready or equipped to be president.
President Joe Biden has a dismal approval rating, and the party knew that he was not mentally capable of another four years long before the debate, yet they lied to the American people.
Instead of ushering him out and picking a worthy candidate at the convention, they “knighted” Harris — who is a Biden clone — apparently thinking anyone could beat Trump. The only platform that Harris promoted was the anti-Trump, pro-abortion platform. She thought Biden was doing a good job and didn’t need to change anything! 
Put the blame for the Trump election where it belongs and quit blaming the American people.
Ron Six, Reynoldsburg
Hi, there. I am a 76-year-old, childless cat lady of Italian and German (legal/Illegal?) ancestry. After the recent American election, I feel the need to apologize to you all for the way things worked out.
In the past, we had decent candidates on both sides to vote for — until 2016.
One candidate was the most qualified of any candidates to ever run for office, and the other was a reality TV star and failed businessman (many times over). Qualifications lost and razzle dazzle won.
Go figure.
Thank goodness for the pandemic. We did not have to listen to the garbage coming from the White House because we were busy dying and being ignored. The next administration put us in a better place with you and started working toward normalcy.
Well, here we are back at square one.
The majority of Americans have either voted poorly or not at all. The rest of us tried to elect a decent person who the rest of you could work with.
I am so sorry we disappointed you. We did try. There were not enough of us who passed up the Trump Kool-Aid. God help us all through the next four years.
Michaelynn Fiorini, Columbus
Why Issue 1 failed: After Ohio voted to end gerrymandering, overwhelmingly, in 2015 and 2018, the Republican gerrymandered supermajority in the Ohio Statehouse created a commission of six Republican politicians and two Democratic politicians.
This commission failed seven times to produce fair, politically balanced maps and were held in contempt by the (at the time), the more politically balanced Ohio Supreme Court of five Republicans and four Democrats.
In August 2023, the unconstitutionally gerrymandered Republican supermajority in the Ohio Statehouse failed to initially take away Ohio citizens’ right to a ballot initiative in a “special election.” In 2023/24, thousands of Ohio citizens worked tirelessly, collecting over 500,000 signatures to get Issue 1 on this November’s ballot.
The Ballot Language Commission, led by the Secretary of State, wrote the ballot language to totally confuse voters into thinking that if they voted “no,” they would end gerrymandering, when in fact a vote “yes” would form a Citizens Not Politicians commission to produce politically balanced district maps that reflect Ohio’s current voting trend: 52% Republican, 46% Democrat.
It failed because of the intentionally convoluted and confusing ballot language, or, in other words, another giant bamboozle of Ohio voters.
Mike Halaiko, Pickerington