The bbc article about ohio could use some detail.
Robert Murray, the coal magnate interviewed is a blowhard and ohioans know it. The EPA is not universally hated, there are people around the bend in the river who DuPont systematically poisoned with C8 and other chemicals, the coal industry ruined their air and water. They know exactly what industry has done to them. If anything, they blame the EPA for not acting sooner.
Toledo, which is distinctly more than "a hundred miles west," is far from the sunny solarpowered city it is implied to be. Toledo is deep in the rust belt, was whacked in the seventies, the nineties, in the 2000s and the city is closing down whole blocks.
The biggest population centers are Cleveland, Columbus and Cinci. The last is still quite segregated, has a huge police corruption/violence problem and is republican. Columbus is democrat, as is Cleveland.
Both Clinton and Trump are held in contempt throughout the state. Bernie supporters have peeled away to Jill Stein in Columbus, and seem to have quit caring/will not vote in Cleveland. In Cinci, I suspect regardless of repub governor Kasich dislike of Trump they will hold their nose and vote for him. Dayton and Appalachian ohio, likewise. Smaller towns like Youngstown, Mansfield, Canton (more rustbelt stories) have seen thousands of previously democratic voters register republican this year.
I think turnout will be low all over ohio, and the state will eventually not matter as much as is thought. But i could be wrong.
sidd