Ohio Common Ground is not asking you to trust another political organization.
We're building a system where you can see how decisions are made, how issues are selected, how officials are scored, and how the organization is governed.
Trust should be earned through transparency and results.
Our mission is to organize citizens around shared concerns, converting public agreement into measurable influence to encourage a more responsive, competitive, and accountable government. We achieve this by building an informed and influential statewide voting bloc—rewarding leaders who deliver results and withholding support from those who do not.
Ideas worth considering. Research worth exploring.
Candidates and political parties don't own your vote. They have to persuade you that they've earned it. Supporting a candidate—or choosing not to support one—is ultimately your decision.
Gallup reported that 45% of U.S. adults identified as political independents in 2025. OCG is exploring what becomes possible when independent-minded Ohioans organize around shared priorities.
Ohioans don't have to agree on everything to work together on something. The objective is to identify areas of meaningful agreement and organize enough people around them to create political influence.
Organized voters can watch for measurable responses: changes in positions, messaging, engagement or attention to voters who were previously taken for granted. Those responses can provide evidence that voter behavior is affecting political incentives.
Who benefits if you believe it? That's not proof that a claim is true or false. It's a reason to slow down, examine the evidence, check the original sources and reach your own conclusion.
OCG is examining whether organized voters can create greater political competition without requiring people to join another political party. The objective is straightforward: make every candidate work harder for voter support.
where elected officials compete for voter support through performance, honesty, responsiveness, and results rather than party labels, political machines, donor networks, or incumbency advantages.
we want to earn your trust
Unaffiliated voters
Younger voters
Independent voters
Moderate and/or disappointed Republican & Democrat voters
General election voters
Citizens who rarely vote because they believe vote doesn't count
Ohio Common Ground (OCG) is a statewide membership organization being established to give Ohio citizens a stronger, more organized, and more effective voice in public life.
The organization is founded on a simple observation:
Ohioans often agree on far more than our politics suggests.
Yet despite broad agreement on many issues, citizens frequently lack the organization, infrastructure, and collective leverage necessary to translate that agreement into meaningful influence over public policy and government.
Meanwhile, political parties, special interests, advocacy organizations, government institutions, and professional political actors are highly organized and well represented.
Most voters are not.
Ohio Common Ground exists to help close that gap.
Across Ohio, citizens increasingly express similar frustrations.
Government often appears unresponsive.
Political competition has weakened.
Public debate frequently rewards conflict rather than problem-solving.
Many elections feel disconnected from everyday concerns.
Citizens have few practical ways to influence public policy between elections.
At the same time, many Ohioans no longer feel fully represented by either major political party.
Most identify as independent voters.
Others remain Republicans or Democrats but feel increasingly disconnected from party leadership.
Many simply feel politically homeless.
Ohio Common Ground was created to provide these citizens with something they currently lack:
A durable institution through which they can work together.
These requirements are embebbed in our bylaws and governance charters.
These requirements are also embebbed in our bylaws and governance charters.
Ohio Common Ground ISSUES
Members will ultimately vote, from their phones or laptops, on the issues we prioritize. One member, one vote. As we are forming, polling data shows these issue categories to have the greatest non-partisan concern statewide.
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