QUID · OHIO GOVERNOR · OCT 3 - OCT 9, 2026
Seven days of conversation about Vivek Ramaswamy and Amy Acton, split between posts that can be placed in Ohio and posts from the rest of the country. Both candidates run negative in both halves, and the week is shaped less by either campaign than by a run of polls and a vice-presidential visit.
Published polling, shown to set context. A poll asks a sample of voters which candidate they intend to support. Everything else on this page measures something different: the balance of positive and negative labeled posts about each candidate in the captured conversation. A candidate can lead the vote and still take the worse of the argument online, and where the two diverge this page explains the conversation, not the electorate.
The two measures disagree. Acton leads the polling average by about 6 points while reading 11 points worse than Ramaswamy in Ohio's conversation. Both candidates run negative in both halves, and Ramaswamy's near-neutral national figure is two hostile conversations cancelling rather than an absence of hostility.
Net sentiment runs on the left axis from −100 to +100. Gold bars carry total daily volume for both candidates combined; hover any bar for the narratives driving that day. Ramaswamy's line stays within twenty points of zero all week. Acton's swings 122 points, from +46.6 on Monday to -75.4 on Wednesday.
Ohio is harder on Acton than on Ramaswamy by eleven points, and the subject is almost entirely her tenure as state health director.
Ohio
3,361 unique authors · 400 original posts
(5% of volume; the rest are reposts and replies).
Sentiment from 940 labeled posts, 11.5% of this slice;
stored sample behind the labels 94 documents.
Acton's own account supplies the most substantive in-state criticism of Ramaswamy, and it is fiscal: that his tax promises shift the burden rather than reduce it.
Ramaswamy continues to make false promises to Ohioans about lower taxes. When you look at the numbers, his plans will just shift them.
@amyactonohOct 6Source
The in-state case for Ramaswamy is largely declarative. Supporters state an intention to vote for him and a belief that he will keep the state Republican, with little policy attached.
I actually can't wait to vote for Vivek Ramaswamy here in Ohio. I have moved back here to help keep Ohio red.
@DavidZorkocyOct 8Source
A meaningful share of the material naming Ramaswamy in both halves is explicitly racial and xenophobic, including posts the classifier scored as positive toward Acton for that reason. It is not quoted here. It is recorded because it is a real and sizeable part of what was said, and because it inflates volume on both sides without being about either candidate's record.
Ohioans are frustrated with Acton too. That's why we will be voting for Vivek Ramaswamy for our next governor of Ohio.
@Leisa8024Oct 6Source
Ohio
2,977 unique authors · 360 original posts
(5% of volume; the rest are reposts and replies).
Sentiment from 1,740 labeled posts, 26.2% of this slice;
stored sample behind the labels 174 documents.
Almost everything said against Acton inside Ohio returns to her time as state health director and the business closures that followed. It is argued with figures and it is the single most durable theme in her cells.
Amy Acton literally shut down Ohio and permanently closed over 28,000 Ohio small businesses.
@BlackarchParrotOct 8Source
Her supporters make no attempt to change the subject. The Columbus Dispatch opinion page put the two sides of it in one line, and that framing is the most circulated pro-Acton item of the week inside Ohio.
Acton saved Ohio lives. Ramaswamy's DOGE work shows how fast he'll discard them.
The Columbus DispatchOct 5Source
The secondary in-state attack concerns whether a professional licence was expired or suspended, pressed by state legislators. It is a narrow factual argument that occupies a disproportionate share of a cell this size.
An expired license is not the same as a suspended license. Only the BMV or a court can suspend a license.
@Rob_McColleyOct 8Source
The same week reads differently depending on where you stand. Net sentiment is plotted from Ohio on the left to the rest of the country on the right; the solid line counts every post naming a candidate, the dashed line counts only posts that name that candidate and not the other.
All posts naming the candidate Posts naming that candidate only
Ramaswamy's -0.8 nationally is the nearest thing to a neutral reading on this microsite, and it is misleading. It is two hostile conversations of similar size cancelling, not an absence of hostility, and it falls to -10.8 once Acton's name is removed. Only 12 percent of his posts carry a sentiment label at all.
Acton reads negative in both halves and worse nationally than at home, -27.8 against -21.8, with the gap widening under the stricter test. Ohio and the country are arguing about the same thing, her record as state health director, and neither is persuaded by the defense that the record saved lives.
Geography, not party. Both columns cover the same week and the same two candidates; what separates them is which arguments actually travel.
Ohio argues about what Acton did in office and what Ramaswamy would do with it. Business closures, a professional licence, and whether his tax promises shift the burden. The in-state cells are the thinner half of this race.
Nationally the race is about whether it is winnable. Five unfavourable polls then one favourable one, rumours of advertising money leaving, and a super PAC conceding its claims about Acton were false.
Ramaswamy's national figure is the closest to neutral on the microsite at -0.8. It is not approval; it is two hostile conversations cancelling out.
Rest of United States
31,004 unique authors · 2,999 original posts
(5% of volume; the rest are reposts and replies).
Sentiment from 7,112 labeled posts, 12.5% of this slice;
stored sample behind the labels 1,313 documents.
The national story of Ramaswamy's week is polling. A run of five unfavourable surveys was followed by one showing him narrowly ahead, and that reversal is the single most circulated item in his cells.
Vivek Ramaswamy gets boost after five Ohio polling blows in a row. He edged out Democrat Amy Acton in a new poll of the Ohio governor's race.
Andrew StantonOct 8Source
Against the polling recovery ran a persistent rumour that national Republicans were preparing to withdraw advertising support. It is unsourced and it circulated widely, which is a fair description of much of this race's national volume.
Rumors in Ohio are spreading that the GOP will pull ad money out of the governor's race in the next week.
@bourscheidOct 9Source
The organized Democratic argument against him is about who he would govern for. It is the most repeated structured criticism in his national cells and the counterweight to the polling recovery.
Vivek Ramaswamy is only interested in serving himself and his billionaire friends.
@DavidPepperOct 8Source
Rest of United States
22,641 unique authors · 1,691 original posts
(4% of volume; the rest are reposts and replies).
Sentiment from 12,541 labeled posts, 30.4% of this slice;
stored sample behind the labels 1,865 documents.
The most consequential national item in Acton's cells is an admission that advertising against her contained false claims. Democratic organizations carried it hard, which is why it sits in her positive-scored cell despite being about an attack on her.
Ramaswamy's Super PAC admits to spreading lies about Dr. Amy Acton.
Democratic Governors AssociationOct 7Source
Where the national conversation engages with what Acton would do rather than what she did, the subject is restoring renewable energy and efficiency standards for utilities.
Amy Acton wants to restore Ohio's renewable energy and energy efficiency standards for electric utilities.
@cleantechfactsOct 9Source
A large share of the national material about Acton is not about policy at all. Recurring nicknames about drinking and competence account for much of the repetition, which is why her national figure worsens once the test is tightened.
Do not vote for Amy Acton. She constantly lies and lacks what it takes to be governor.
@Chris__X__Oct 8Source
This page is the product of two different kinds of work. One half is data that no public API makes available; the other half is judgment about what the data does and does not support.
None of the following could be assembled from public endpoints inside a week.
The data does not interpret itself, and it arrives with traps in it.
Neither half can establish cause. This page measures what was said, how much of it there was, and who said it. It is not a poll, it does not model turnout, and it does not predict the November result.
primary: sentiment targeting, so the sentiment is scored
toward that named figure rather than toward the post as a whole.