Democratic politicians are becoming a rare breed in Pennsylvania, - TopicsExpress

Democratic politicians are becoming a rare breed in Pennsylvania, a state that voted twice for Obama. According to PoliticsPa, the last voting cycle was “the (Democratic) party’s worst performance in congressional races in a presidential cycle since before the Great Depression.” Aside from rural rednecks who “cling to guns or religion,” what accounts for the reddening of PA? Redistricting may be partly to blame, and if so, some very savvy Republican must have been in charge of drawing up this map. PoliticsPA reports: “Major prognosticators list 10 of the GOP’s 13 Pennsylvania U.S. House seats as ‘safe’ with three seats occasionally popping up on the ‘likely Republican’ or ‘lean Republican’ lists… As such, barring an unforeseen tsunami in a mid-term election with the party’s president in the White House, Democrats will continue to languish with a paltry number of U.S. House seats that – just like in neighboring Ohio – is historically unprecedented.”