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BumRushDaShow

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2. "Outside the cities and burbs, the population hasn't entertained a new thought since fuel injection."
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 05:55 AM
Oct 2024

But remember, like the sig graphic I have, they don't have the NUMBERS "outside the cities and burbs".



For some reason, the media has helped magnify how many there are. There are actually counties in PA, that literally have the same population as a single neighborhood in Philadelphia. There are probably more dairy cows or elk than people in those counties.

The problem has been to get the population centers out to vote. It should be something that is easy to do and that will happen EVERY YEAR, not every 4 years or every 2 years. For many many years, where goes Philly, so goes the state of PA, as we could provide the margin that blanked out the minuscule rural vote. 45 managed to wake up some of the rural voters while the GOP attempted to suppress the urban one, so it's a matter of us getting the population centers back into the game.

The sad thing is this - when you have to go through what we are going through now to convince people to vote, it is so exhausting and mind-numbing that once they do vote, they don't bother the following year(s).

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