Last week I looked at the national numbers for the 2024 election. This week a different pattern emerged in the Pennsylvania election numbers. Nationally turnout was lower but in Pennsylvania it was slightly higher. The table below shows the vote totals from 2024 overall and for each ballot type from the PA Dept of State […]

There has been a lot of hand wringing about the election and why Kamala Harris lost. Did she not have enough time to campaign? Did the Democrats move too far to the left? Are minorities moving to the right towards Trump? Did third parties cost them the election? Before we can answer these questions we […]

Many progressives were disappointed in Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WVa) no vote on the build back better act.  This is about more than merely scoring political points or infrastructure.  This is about programs like the expanded child care tax credit which gives assistance to low income parents like my friend Jennina Rose Gorman.  She was interviewed […]

  Last week I posted on COVID Case Mortality and County Health Ranking (CHR) measures.  I also posted that there was a stronger correlation between the health behaviors and Trump’s % of the vote than with COVID case mortality.  This week I will look at which individual county statistics used by CHR are the best predictors […]

The Southern Poverty Law Center has come out with it’s 2020 hate map showing the concentration of hate groups in the US as seen above.  The total number of groups that they follow nationally went down in 2020 to 838 from 940 in 2019.  The high point for hate groups during the Trump years was […]

I’m back to posting about the coronavirus.  At the beginning of November, I posted on how mortality was surging in Blair and Westmoreland Counties which are to the west and east of Cambria County respectively.  While deaths a still rising in those counties, Cambria County has eclipsed them both since Trump came here on October […]

  Ha ha ha!  Made you look.  There are no Kardashians in Cambria County that I know of.  Do you? I could make this post about how mortality in Cambria County from COVID-19 has been skyrocketing this month (25 deaths since October 28).  However I thought I would comment on how I had to battle […]

Four years ago Donald Trump won Cambria County with 66.8% of the vote.  This year he won the county with 67.9%.  Many observers were shocked that he won by such a large margin.  However when one looks at individual precincts a more complex pattern can emerge.   In 2017, looked at the precinct data for Johnstown […]

Steve Elfelt created the above video detailing the events surrounding Blair Counties rise in cases and deaths including Trump rallies.  It is similar to my last post where I showed how cases in Cambria increased after the Trump rallies there while testing did not increase.  Recently Westmoreland County has been showing a steady rise in […]

On Monday I had an interview with Bo Moore on his radio show “Laurel Highlands Now.”  You can listen to the interview below.    On Sept 23 Donald Trump Jr visited Johnstown to campaign for his father and on Oct 13 his father came here to campaign for reelection.  Few at these rallies were wearing […]