Daily News | Pa. Republicans are gaining on Democrats in registered voters. We look at what that really means.
A local Republican Party in Southwestern Pennsylvania has a quote attributed to Samuel Adams on its website: “It does not take a majority to prevail … but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”Registered Republicans surpassed Democrats in Fayette this summer, making it the last county in the rapidly reddening region to flip to a GOP voter edge. The inversion reflects and continues years-long.
Many new Republicans are Democrats and independents who switched parties and have likely already been voting Republican for years. “It tends to be the end of a journey to a different party rather than the beginning,” said Lara Putnam, a University of Pittsburgh professor who studies Pennsylvania elections. “But at the same time, the people who bother to change — because they’re more attuned to politics — can be the canary in the coal mine indicators of broader trends.”, and Republicans’ growth almost everywhere else, was augmented by past elections.
A decade ago, the two major parties were almost evenly split in the 15 counties that, like Fayette, had between 50,000 and 100,000 voters. By the 2020 election, Republicans had a 20-percentage-point registration edge in the same counties.“Western Pennsylvania is home to so many working men and women — blue-collar folks, and people that have been Democrats their entire lives because their parents and grandparents were Democrats,” said Allegheny County GOP chair Sam DeMarco.
Dave Lohr, a Republican, ran for county commissioner every four years starting in 1995. He remembers it being hard to find Republican signatures to get on the ballot. He finally won in 2015.
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