Posted on 08/13/2020 9:50:35 AM PDT by lightman
Trump didn’t win Allegheny County (Pittsburgh)in 2016. Clinton didn’t get as many votes there as Obama which enabled the rural vote to carry the state for Trump.
James Carville got it absolutely right, You have Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Alabama. We have a Summer Home in the “Alabama” part, very red, and only 7 miles from the NY Border..
Here in Washington County PA there are Trump signs,banners,stickers,flags everywhere! It seems every other house has a Trump sign in their yard.
Trump won PA, but that was despite PA's GOP, not because of it. Since then, they lost winnable races for governor and senator because the party didn't support the pro-trump candidates, and they didn't even bother putting up a fight in redistricting. In 2018, the philly suburbs in particular went a lot more blue, and that area will probably be what decides the state more than the rural areas, which have stayed as pro-trump as they were before.
Governor Wolf has proven both inept and incapable of learning how to improve during the pandemic, and he's letting a morbidly obese person with mental health issues dictate what the state should do to stay healthy. The rural voters are mostly only voting R anyway, as the urban voters likewise mostly only vote D. How this hits those suburban voters, who mostly have their jobs protected but are going to start feeling stress over the way that the lockdowns have hampered their children's activities, but are afraid to speak criticism of the totalitarian Dr. Levine because s/he is in a protected social caste, is probably the real story for the election.
My relative’s previous employee closed down, and his current employer laid off everyone effective today. We live in Pennsylvania. My relative does not vote. Hopefully, I can persuade him to do so.
Pennlive has been Wolf’s mouthpiece throughout the pandemic. The article is pretty balanced, but the writer reverts to his rolodex of university poli-sci profs to give him his prognostications. Gee I wonder what they’ll say? /sarc
Hillary was technically from Scranton, too. But did anybody consider her a ‘favorite son/daughter’? No. You don’t move away at 10 years of age and still get to claim status 67 years later.
“I asked around”: Robin Kolodny chairs Temple University’s political science department, PElizabethtown College poli-sci prof Fletcher McClellanhilip Harold, poli-sci prof at Robert Morris University, Penn State poli-sci associate prof Robert Speel, Berwood Yost, director, Franklin & Marshall College’s Center for Opinion Research ... oh yeah, “experts” one and all ...
If getting rid of the filibuster is the nuclear option, how about the Death Star option?
That’s GOP legislatures appointing a set of electors if the results are disputed.
COVID restrictions are very popular with voters.
Love it!!!
Nothing says you can’t.
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