Lexi Sneptaur@pawb.social to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 days agoThe Biden Campaign is Courting an Unexpected Group of Voters: Republicanswww.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square86fedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down13
arrow-up198arrow-down1external-linkThe Biden Campaign is Courting an Unexpected Group of Voters: Republicanswww.npr.orgLexi Sneptaur@pawb.social to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 days agomessage-square86fedilink
minus-squaremydude@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down1·26 days ago“For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.” -Chuck Schumer, 2016
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·26 days agoThere are still blue-collar Democrats in Western PA? I thought they went extinct in the early aughts
minus-squareKit@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·26 days agoSure there are, but they’re all in Pittsburgh. As soon as you venture outside of city limits it’s a very different story.
“For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.” -Chuck Schumer, 2016
There are still blue-collar Democrats in Western PA? I thought they went extinct in the early aughts
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Sure there are, but they’re all in Pittsburgh. As soon as you venture outside of city limits it’s a very different story.