Pennsylvania was not a swing state for many decades after the Civil War. Voters there supported Republican candidates in every presidential election between 1860 and 1932 – including Progressive Republican Theodore Roosevelt in 1912.
Pennsylvania was not a swing state for many decades after the Civil War. Voters there supported Republican candidates in every presidential election between 1860 and 1932 – including Progressive Republican Theodore Roosevelt in 1912.
Through the 1940s, Pennsylvania continued to support Republican presidential candidates more than the rest of the country did as a whole. But then the state switched abruptly and began to support Democratic presidential candidates by margins larger than the nation’s electorate as a whole for 60 years from 1952 through 2012.
That is partly because the power of the Republican political machine in Philadelphia disintegrated. There has been no Republican mayor there since 1952.
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