DEMS/ELECTION/GOP/PENNSYLVANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Sandy Sinkovich, a retired X-ray technician, was a registered Republican until she switched parties during the Obama years. She plans to vote a straight Democratic ticket in the midterms. President Trump, she said, has ‘done nothing but destroy our country.’ Dave Sweeney, who services juice machines, registered as a Republican in 2016 after years of being a Democrat so he could vote for Mr. Trump in the primary. He is concerned about the migrant caravan and plans to vote party-line Republican…Few states have reflected the changing political allegiances of the Trump era more than Pennsylvania, which was the most populous of the trifecta of Rust Belt states that Mr. Trump flipped in 2016. Along the way, Republicans claimed 13 of Pennsylvania’s 18 House seats. Now, two years later, the wheel is turning again. Because of weak Republican candidates at the top of the state ticket and redrawn congressional districts, Democrats are positioned for gains — maybe big ones — in Pennsylvania on Tuesday [11-6-18], including three or more women who could crash the state’s all-male House delegation.”
–Trip Gabriel, “Pennsylvania Flipped to Trump in 2016. Will It Flip Back in the Midterms?,” The New York Times online, November 2, 2018