Declining Voter Registration Numbers in Swing State of Pennsylvania a Worry for Democrats

These voters have not changed personally, but their parties have done so. Democrats have abandoned their working-class voters for college-educated elites who rarely call the middle of somewhere home.

AP/Rebecca Droke
President Biden at West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, September 5, 2022. AP/Rebecca Droke

HOOVERSVILLE, Pennsylvania — If you are a longtime resident of Pennsylvania, it is a bit of a jolt to the senses to drive through what was once coal country and see an oversized, cheery, red billboard sitting along U.S. 30 reading “VOTE REPUBLICAN.”

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