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bucolic_frolic

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3. Pennsylvanians accept everything at face value. There is no critical thinking. They wear blinders.
Sun Dec 15, 2024, 08:44 PM
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They could be extremists, but they generally won't verbalize it because most of them don't recognize it in themselves or those around them. It just is. That's what everything at face value means. They don't discern left-right, or at least they didn't before about 2012. Maybe Obama's election awakened their animal spirits. It takes a lot to motivate them. The president is the president, the Senator is the Senator. I don't know of any studies but I think PA probably re-elects incumbents more than most states. It takes a major league bombshell to eject anyone from office. And please note that's not a comment about 2024, or Senator Casey. He got caught in a money race, and didn't lose by much.

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