In the end, the outcome of the Pennsylvania congressional races may have suggested that one of the nation’s premiere political battleground states had taken on a subtly bluer shade of purple.
with Democrats dominating in the population centers and Republicans elsewhere, said Jennie Sweet-Cushman, a political science professor at Chatham University, in Pittsburgh.
In Philadelphia, U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans won his race almost by acclamation, with over 95% of the votes over the nominee of the Socialist Workers Party. It is impossible to know just how much of the turnout in Pennsylvania was generated by the U.S. House races, but it was
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