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Parsing the polls: Pennsylvania is not in the bag for native son Joe Biden

By Timothy P. Carney
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Parsing the polls: Pennsylvania is not in the bag for native son Joe Biden

If there’s any swing state where Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was supposed to outperform Hillary Clinton, and thus beat President Trump, it’s Pennsylvania.

Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, as he loves telling everyone. In 2008 and 2012, former President Barack Obama sent Biden to campaign in Pennsylvania down the stretch. The theory was that “Blue Collar Joe” would appeal to the working-class vote in Scranton and around Pittsburgh.

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