Voting "key facts" for PA
Apr 22nd, 2008 by Mark
CNN reports these as the “key notes” about Pennsylvania’s vote this afternoon. Are they leaving anything out? How about some federal assistance for education and/or crime ills?
- Voters go to the polls April 22 in Pennsylvania, where the Democrat-laden east and the GOP-heavy west has been a national presidential battleground for decades. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama vie for 158 delegates at stake.
- Voter dissatisfaction about the Iraq war and a pay hike for state lawmakers helped Democrats in 2006 win a majority in the state House of Representatives for the first time in 12 years.
- Recent strides by Pennsylvania lawmakers to increase statewide health care benefits make it an appropriate Democratic debating ground for rival national health plans proposed by Clinton and Obama.
- Many residents of Pennsylvania are older; in 2006 it boasted the second-largest elderly population in the nation — outdone only by Florida.
- Voters in the state’s mountainous central region often oppose gun control legislation and tend to harbor strong religious values, according to the Almanac of American Politics.







