I think it’s even worse that it was in-store viewing services? I haven’t thought about Mark Robinson since I made that post originally but it’s worth your time reading about because he’s that wild of a figure.

Claudia De La Cruz and Cornell West are all on the ballot this year.

And will not be counted, lol, hence why I imagine Stein will take some of their votes because she will count. Georgia dems and reps colluding against PSL.

Homestead exemption in the constiution…er…guidelines.

Fetterman’s rabid Zionism is (unfortunately) probably immaterial to PA. PA is a hugely white (74%) older (20% over 65) state whose primary stated driver is economic decline (nothing novel here). The people seem to correctly recognize their quality of life and material conditions are declining, but there’s no real “reason” being presented by dems as to why other than Kamala’s campaign vaguely alluding to price-gouging which she’ll do something? about. Trump messages that the economic woes of PA (everywhere really) is due to migrants.

When the democratic ticket switch occurred people largely decoupled Harris from the Biden administration’s economic policy but consistent messaging from Republicans seems to have wiped that out.

People are feeling their material conditions collapse due to the continued financialization of basically everything under capitalism and neither party provides real analysis/plausible solutions under the existing system so figuring out specific voter grievances there is hard to figure out outside of individual vibes. Democrats are hoping the possibility of a federal abortion ban under Trump advances the white women vote delta past their inaction/various atrocities and Trump is playing towards generic populist racism with romantic fascist idealation.

PA also isn’t a state that I know a lot about relative to some of the other swing states so my analysis is probably lacking here but I’ve tried my best.

to add to @riseuppikmin@hexbear.net’s answer, pennsylvania in 2016 was doing relatively well for pennsylvania historically. the 00s oversaw a fair amount of economic revitalization especially for pittsburgh as it developed a modern healthcare industry that provided residents with job opportunities they hadn’t seen since the steel mills shut down in the late 70s. philadelphia is more of a finance hub and benefited from low interest rates. the opioid crisis and pandemic greatly stressed the healthcare system, pennsylvania rural hospitals were especially unprepared for covid. that’s true everywhere, but i get the sense pa got hit worse than most in that regard and because so much of their recent economic renewal depended on the healthcare industry and low interest debt, now the whole state is feeling like it’s the 80s again last time i was through. the dems have offered nothing except “not trump” and scolding, which doesn’t sit well with the confederate-flag waving denizens of the vast stretches of sparsely populated karst forests known colloquially as “pennsyltucky” in between pittsburgh and philadelphia.

You’re right about 2016, but in 2020 republicans saw a collapse in the white suburban vote (from 54%-38% in favor of R in 2016 to 51%-47% in favor of R in 2020). The collapse of support in that group was the margin Republicans lost the election on.

It appears the US is also going to have the largest gender gap in voting in the nation’s history this election, so it “makes sense” that the democratic party who is entirely unwilling to decouple from its genocide platform has chosen this sole route as their theoretical victory. The more baffling thing is that they’ve identified this new core group they need to win but don’t even message effectively (abortion) on this flip wedge issue.

In case it wasn’t abundantly clear I think all of these people are monsters- just trying to provide the analysis of how the democrats think they may possibly win.