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Nov 8 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
What is the best song about each swing state for tomorrow? Putting together a playlist
For #NCSen: Raise up! Take Your Shirt off, Twist it 'round your head! Spin it like a helicopter by @DaRealPetey
@DaRealPetey For #OHSen, a namesake song for @TimRyan's hometown, Youngstown, which is incidentally becoming redder and the song kind of explains the desolation that motivated the WWC to vote for Trump.
Everyone associated Allentown, my stepdad's hometown, with the White Working Class that Billy Joel depicts here, plenty of Latinos live and work there. That demographic will be essential for #PASen
From @jhagglund: For #NE02, which if Democrats wind up winning, they might be smiling: Omaha.

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