Journal looks at key battleground states with political reporters and analysts on the ground. Focusing on key battleground states, with reporters on the ground, what has changed, what policy issues are motivating this year. And clues about how people might vote in each state in november. Today we turn our attention to the keystone state of pennsylvania, and Franklin Marshall College Professor and poster Terry Madonna joins us from harrisburg this morning. Lets begin with what happened in pennsylvania in 2016. 2016, then candidate donald j. Trump carried the state of pennsylvania by 44,000 votes. He won the state because of the turnout and the high proportion of votes that he got in central pennsylvania, and also in the southwestern part of our state, in the old mining and mill towns. I call it small towns and rural pennsylvania, and in the northeastern part of our state, largely because he developed what has generally been referred to as the rustbelt strategy, ofre he campaigned in par
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