The Democrats’ diversity challenge

Published January 29, 2017 5:02am ET



JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — What a difference a decade makes.

In the 2006 midterm elections, every single Democrat running for office in Cambria County, the county this old industrial city sits in, garnered nearly 70 percent of the voters’ support up and down the ballot. From Gov. Ed Rendell, to Sen. Bob Casey, to the late congressman Jack Murtha, they all owned this region electorally.

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