Here in our county in western pa., we sit in the middle of bituminous coal country. Though most of the mines are closed, most of the people in the coal-mining communities would rather vote for bagged dirt than a Republican. I work for a Republican elected official and she always wins by a landslide, but her smallest number of votes are in the out-lying coal mining communities. Our county did come out in favor of Bush last election, but the next county over from us, Cambria - another coal-mining county - was a blue county. If you look at a Pa. map of blue/red counties, you’ll see that most of Pa. voted red, other than the bigger cities and Cambria county. That’s Murtha’s county!