- Formally called the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Democrats (Blues) have enjoyed good strength in Pennsylvania since 1992, except in 2016 when Republican (Reds) leader Donald Trump was elected president.
- Not getting big numbers in Pennsylvania could hurt Kamala Harris’s chances as no Democrat has entered the White House without Pennsylvania since 1948.
- There are 600,000 Asian-Americans in Pennsylvania, with Indian-Americans being the largest group. The Trump and Harris campaigns have acknowledged they face their toughest challenge in this state.
- Major concerns in Pennsylvania include rising inflation and pressure on the cost of living. Grocery prices in Pennsylvania have been rising the fastest for some time.
- Although Pennsylvania is considered a swing state with 19 electoral votes, it is no longer what it used to be a century ago when it had 38 electoral votes, twice as many as it has now. Many industrialized states in the northern parts of the US have seen people migrate to other areas. Pennsylvania was no exception.
- To win a US election, a candidate needs 270 Electoral College votes. The results in the seven battleground states of Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia will decide who will be the next president.
- Pennsylvania as well as North Carolina and Georgia also have immense influence in deciding the winner because unlike other states that stand firmly with either party, these states can go either way – with red or blue. .
- Donald Trump is talking about illegal immigration, crime, manufacturing and bringing back jobs, and inflation, while also adding impromptu comments from a teleprompter. In Pennsylvania, they threw away most of the machines and left temporarily.
- A day before the election, the presidential race appears to be moving toward a photo finale, with Kamala Harris gaining new strength in North Carolina and Georgia in the final set of surveys from The New York Times and Siena College.
- Pennsylvania is also known as the “Keystone State”, meaning a central, wedge-shaped stone that holds all the other stones in the structure in place to form an arch. In early America, Pennsylvania played an important geographical and strategic role in holding together the states of the newly formed Confederate States of America.
