The Democrats’ diversity challenge

By Salena Zito

Published January 29, 2017 5:02am ET

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The Democrats’ diversity challenge — Today the Blue Dogs are decimated, there are only 17 left, only two of them women. And every year they face expensive, heated primary battles from progressives, and are about to face the same onslaught next year from the 2018 Bernie Sanders purists who want them out of "their" party. | bubaone

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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