Will Ohio’s Wood County Continue to Be a Reliable Bellwether Indicator?

Farming also is a big part of Wood County's make up in northwest Ohio. Here, a farming operation is pictured in Bowling Green, Ohio in Wood County, a bellwether county in America's Heartland experiencing problems such as inflation and high gas prices, affecting every day life. Michael Sakal/The Epoch Times

In the northwest corner of Ohio sits a county with an enviable bellwether reputation—only twice over the past 60 years voting against the presidential winner.

Wood County—as with Ottawa County, its neighbor to the east along Lake Erie—is filled with farm fields, is home to many military veterans (about 7,000 of them), and hasn’t seen much expansion or change since the late 1970s or early 1980s.