PA Vote Tidbits For Wednesday Night 11/4/20

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14. I Agree

But they need permission from Pennsylvania's Republican led legislature to do anything more than put them in storage. The legislature did nothing so counties like Philadelphia, Allegheny, Delaware and some others couldn't touch them until Tuesday morning.

The whole delay was Republican generated to allow them and their President to try and create a "crisis" of their own doing. So much of what Republicans have done for decades is to try and create a mirage of Democratic wrongdoing or unethical ness (see Clinton investigations). In the end it's the narrative they want to control; provide the "smoke" and claim there's a fire.

At some point I want to go though the PA election results to see what actually happened. I wanted to do that in 2016 but it was just too difficult to do a post mortem after that debacle. There's something going on in PA where Democratic voter registration advantages aren't translating to legislature or state-wide office control. I suspect there's a lot of rural Democratic voter defections. The difference between rural and urban/suburban Democratic voters may be much more substantial than the differences between rural/suburban and urban Republican voters.