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The Pennsylvania Republican Party, with help from the national organization, has dramatically closed the voter registration gap with Democrats following the 2020 election cycle, according to figures published this week. Penn-Star Capital correspondent Nick Field wrote this week that the state GOP has made significant gains in voter registrations.
“Since I first started tracking voter registrations [sic] trends in Pennsylvania, Republicans have generally eaten into Democrats’ historic advantage. This is the first time I can recall, however, that the GOP posted gains in all 67 counties throughout the Commonwealth,” he wrote.
“Furthermore, the comparison to the last Presidential cycle is particularly stark. Back during the COVID-delayed voter registration deadline in May 2020, the Democratic advantage was D+803,427. Today it stands at 397,241.
There is a WSJ article that pops up on my feed, sometimes pay walled, Sometimes not. Basically says that the Dems launched a registration drive in the East Liberty section of Pittsburgh to get all the new techies from California registered. The drive was cancelled when the registration results were tilted towards Rebublicans. One Dem party official expressed worry that they may not be able to hold Allegheny County (which I think is BS), but come election night and pittsburgh is at least within say 5%, Biden is toast.
How many of those people were ancestral Democrats who voted for Mr. Trump at least once in the last two presidential elections, though? The same thing happened in Kentucky and Louisiana, where the Republican Party took the lead in registrations not too long ago, yet both states have voted for the Republican presidential candidate since 2000.
‘Now They’re Voting Red’: A Pennsylvania Fracking Boom Weighs on Biden’s Re-Election Chances
In Pennsylvania, the largest 2024 battleground state, President Biden’s victory four years ago depended in large part on big gains among voters such as Thieler, a software company manager and former Republican who is now part of the city’s heavily Democratic professional class. But those gains have been overtaken by opposition from voters like Sabo, who works in the natural-gas industry, a sector that has given a boost to blue-collar workers in rural counties.
These energy-economy voters see Biden as hostile to fracking, which taps natural gas trapped in sedimentary rock deep underground. The sector has drawn billions of dollars in new investment in Pennsylvania, much of it in the state’s southwest corner.
Biden has been particularly hurt by his decision to cancel the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which local companies say cut into demand for their services; and his order this year to pause new permits to export liquefied natural gas, which could deprive drillers of new markets. Many of these voters also believe the president’s push for Americans to adopt electric vehicles will undercut jobs tied to fossil fuels.
The area’s reliance on energy jobs helps explain why Democrats look to be losing more voters than they have gained here despite a Biden agenda that’s pumping billions of dollars into infrastructure and manufacturing. https://www.wsj.com/politics/electio...oters-a360fd1b
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