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) partys 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 GOPs 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 partys 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.
Pennsylvanians seems confused, however, or maybe they just like to mix it up. In 2012, despite giving their electoral votes to Obama, Keystone State voters elected the lowest number (five) and lowest rate (27 percent) of U.S. Representatives by a major party whilst simultaneously casting its electoral votes for that partys presidential nominee.