On Election Night, voters in northeastern Ohio's Trumbull and Ashtabula counties made Sean O'Brien--a three-term Democratic state representative--their state senator. They also helped make Donald Trump president. In 2012, 60 percent of Trumbull's largely white, working class electorate voted for Barack Obama. In 2016, they flipped their support to the populist GOP candidate who offered his own promises for change. The partisan shift surprised O'Brien, but he realized it shouldn't have. Days before the election, O'Brien's cousin snapped a photo of his own front yard and sent it to the soon-to-be state senator.