PA 6 includes Lower Merion, Norristown, and part of Reading. Its BEEN Blue ever since it was drawn up. God only knows why the Republicans int he legislature created it like they did. They did a really bad job of drawing lines though.
“God only knows why the Republicans int he legislature created it like they did.”
Well, I don’t call it the “Kick Me Hard” party for nothing.
The GOP probably thought that if they made nice nice with the Dems that they could all get together and share milk and cookies.
Hopefully, those days are gone now!
Well, the district would have been strongly Republican say, in the 80s or early 90s. The redistricters were attempting to get rid of Dem Rep. Tim Holden by drawing him into a district he couldn’t win, either the new PA-6 or the Harrisburg-area district held at the time by Republican George Gekas. Well, it backfired on them; Gekas lost to Holden, and Gerlach has only barely held on in a district that contains too much of Montgomery County, which I presume they put in there from PA-13 so they could move it into NE Philly.