Mitt Romney becoming the first Senator in the President’s party to vote to convict on one of the charges in Trump’s impeachment trial did raise some eyebrows.  It may not be as surprising given that he and Trump have butted heads.  However other Republicans who have butted heads, with Trump in the past, such as […]

In my two previous posts I looked at Freshman Democratic Congressman their support for single payer or Medicare for All, and their ethnic background on how they effect campaign contributions from the healthcare industry.  I found that there nonwhite freshman who supported single payer received less money than white freshman who did.  I also looked […]

The website Tarbell has published an analysis of the 62 freshman House Democrats looking at their support for Medicare for All and how much in campaign donations from the health care industry that they received.  The author, Danielle Keeton-Olsen, states that those members who publicly declared their support for Medicare for All or Single Payer […]

Previously I reported on how Trump’s approval ratings have remained remarkably consistent in the face of revelations of scandals and the separation of immigrant children from their families.  Since then Trump’s Real Clear Politics (RCP) average of approval ratings took a brief dip from 43% to 40% in the events surrounding Sen. John McCain’s funeral and […]

A report was released today by Keystone Crossroads showing how voter turnout increased from 43% in 2014 (the last midterm election) to 58% this year.  These numbers are for the percentage of registered voters who voted.  For my county, 50,184 voters out of 83,338 registrants voted for a turnout of 60.22%.  If one considers the […]

My social media experiment did not work.  Of the nine local and statewide races I followed, only 5 winners had the greater social media presence (see table below).  In 2016 Facebook followings predicted the winner in 8 of the 9 races.  Does that mean that Russia does not care about our elections any more or […]

Last week I looked at gross changes in the voter registration rolls in Cambria County.  This week I’m looking at how many of these changes were due to pepole switching parties. The Department of State provides these numbers for 2018.  The graph above shows the number of voters who have switched from 2014-2018.   Cambria County […]

Cambria County used to be a reliable county for Democrats.  This was especially true for Democratic Presidential candidates from 1960 to 2000.  Pundits were shocked when in 2016 Donald Trump won the county with 66% of the vote.  .  For one year after there were several documentary filmmakers (including Katie Couric for National Geographic and Gary […]

  On September 29, at the Homecoming parade for Shaler High School I met Lyndsey Williams who is running for the PA State Senate post for district 38.  This is a district once held by Jim Ferlo who was an outspoken advocate for single payer/medicare for all for decades.  In 2014 his district was redrawn […]

I have taken the plunge and bought a Domain name for this blog,  https://alleghenyindependent.media/.  For the time being I will stay with blogger to see how it influences the traffic I get. I will focus my first post on the upcoming 2018 election looking at the candidate’s social media followings.  In the 2016 election I […]