Posted on 09/13/2020 8:58:02 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Miller did not vote for Donald Trump in 2016; he didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton, either. He said he is a retired insurance manager and does not like what he sees coming from the party he has been a part of his adult life.
“I just get tired of the game-playing that the Democrats are doing. Everything's just so disgusting today. Something has to change. Well, something's going to change,” he said.
Miller is not alone. For the first time that anyone could remember, Cambria County is no longer dominated by Democratic voter registrations. They lost that dominance quietly on Labor Day weekend when Pennsylvania Department of State registration numbers showed Republicans having 37,951 registrations and Democrats holding 37,826
Yet it was not that long ago that then-candidate Barack Obama won here over Republican John McCain and not that long ago that Democrats had a 30,000-voter registration advantage over Republicans.
Kulback said for counties such as hers to help Trump over the line, they not only have to hit the 2016 numbers but exceed them.
“We have to hit 60,000 votes here, and, honestly, I think we have a shot of exceeding that,” she said.
As the line formed for people to enter the storefront, Kulback's goals did not appear out of reach. Joe Biden needs to cut in and win back some of this rural vote to win the state, while Trump needs them to hold not just their enthusiastic numbers from 2016 but to push for 1% more.
Whoever does win, the story cannot just be about the suburban voters and their needs being met. Rural voters will still be here, and it is hard to imagine that they will ever let both political parties' establishments forget them again.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
ping on PA
The best swing state election reporter...Trump campain should read everything she writes
Trump has to win every swing state by 150,000 votes or the democrats will steal it
They got fooled in 2016...Hillary 92%
From your keyboard to God’s Ear. Nice article, I’m a big fan of your writing.
This fits in with the LS story above.
I have some distant cousins in Cambria County, home to Johnstown PA. I live nearby in Allegheny County. Here is Cambria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambria_County,_Pennsylvania
Florida is not safe...there moving here faster than they can build the houses..had four families from the mid west just before school started...who did they vote for???
My wife and her family are from Cambria County.
They are divided politically.
Parents were Dems because of FDR, but Clinton and Obama awakened them.
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