Beaver County PA—the setting of a good deal of "How will X play with the [implicitly male] white working class in the Rust Belt?" drive-thru reporting since 2016—today.
(You'll notice many celebrating are not white or not men. But apparently live there too and have votes too!)
Joe Biden's margin was one point better than Hilary Clinton's here. Which may not sound impressive until you realized that Dem vote margin had declined here in **every single election since 1988** by 5-10 points every time. So actually, reversing that is a Big Deal!
I tweet a lot about Beaver County: like weirdly a lot, for someone not actually employed by the local chamber of commerce. Nested threads (interspersed with election night ranting, sorry) available here if of interest
Kind of stunningly, Republicans were able to increase the absolute number of people showing up to vote for Donald Trump in Beaver county by about 10% from 2016 to 2020. Even more👀, Dems were able to increase the number showing up to vote Dem at the top of the ticket by even more
The same thing happened very consistently in similar counties across the region. Some preliminary stats and charts here👇. There'll be lots to analyze & draw lessons from in days ahead
But for now I'll leave you w/ this footage of the Beaver County Young Dems (a group that came together in response to Donald Trump's election 4 ys ago & haven't stopped since) jumping into a frozen river in January to raise money for charity. It sparks joy
More images from Beaver yesterday of the folks on the ground who've been working so hard, for multiple years now, to build a new politics (& new Democratic Party). From rustbeltmayberry.shootproof.com/gallery/beaver… @ErinNinehouser
Beaver county, PA Nov 7 2020. This are the faces of the Democratic Party in the rust belt today rustbeltmayberry.shootproof.com/gallery/beaver…
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