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Saturday, August 1, 2020

GOP gains voters at 5 times the rate of Democrats in Pennsylvania



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  • SHOCK - Appealing to the average Joe gets you more votes than kissing Wall Street's ass.


(WND)  -  Pennsylvania lived up its moniker as "the Keystone State" in regard to Donald Trump's upset victory over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.

The magic moment for the then-New York businessman came when network anchors called Pennsylvania for Trump, putting the GOP nominee over the top in the Electoral College vote.




Going into the evening, CNN determined Clinton already had 268 of the 270 votes she needed to win the White House, while the network gave Trump only 204.

The final tally was Trump 306 to Clinton's 232.

The experts believed Pennsylvania certainly would go for the former secretary of state. After all, no Republican had carried the commonwealth since George H.W. Bush in 1988.

The Real Clear Politics average of polls showed Clinton with a lead of 2 percentage points, but when all was said and done, Trump carried Pennsylvania with 48.2 percent to Clinton's 47.5 percent.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Democrats currently have an 800,000-registered-voter advantage over Republicans in Pennsylvania, which should bode well for Biden.

However, that total is down from a 936,000-voter lead Democrats enjoyed in 2016, when Trump won the state.

The reason is Republicans are registering voters at a rate five times greater than Democrats.

Since 2016, the GOP has added 165,000 net voters to its rolls in Pennsylvania, while the Democrats' ranks have grown by just 30,000.

The Inquirer did a careful county-by-county analysis and found that while Democrats have built on their strongholds in and around Philadelphia, the party has lost ground nearly everywhere else, including Allegheny County, which encompasses Pittsburgh.

Westmoreland County, adjacent to Allegheny, used to be a Democratic bastion, but it is the county in which the GOP saw the greatest gains and now leans Republican.

The leftward movement of the Democratic Party away from issues of concern for traditional blue-collar voters appears a likely cause.

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