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Egnever

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17. Something else to consider.

Tue Sep 13, 2016, 10:47 PM

Sep 2016

in 2012 the county in the article went for Romney 56% I don't think the prospects there were high to begin with.

this portion of the article is a fabrication.

"President Barack Obama and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton have had a “tremendously devastating” impact on voters in a county that has been reliably Democratic in the past."

ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Pennsylvania,_2008

That county turned red in 2008 and was 50- 50 the election before that it has been moving towards red for quite a while. Likely because of the policies towards coal mining in the dem party, There is nothing that can be done about that as coal is the worst of all fuels.

Coal is the worst offender, a dirty, carbon-intensive fuel source that pollutes the air, fouls our environment, and single-handedly produces more than a quarter of U.S. global warming emissions. More on coal and other fossil fuels.

No way to sugar coat that and denying it is folly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Pennsylvania,_2008

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