spent a week in Ohio in early November interviewing dozens of people and reporting on the run-up to the SB 5 referendum,” wrote Mother Jones reporter Andy Kroll. “I visited heavily Democratic and Republican parts of the state, talking to liberals and conservatives, union leaders and activists. What struck me was how dramatically the debate had shifted in Ohio thanks in large part to the energy generated by Occupy Wall Street. It was as if a great tide had lifted the pro-repeal forces in a way you only fully grasped if you were there.”

