Pennsylvania

Presidential Race

This is a Purple “battleground” state, one of six critical states that voted for Obama in 2012, but then voted for Trump in 2016. It is absolutely critical to our survival that we win back this state for Biden in 2020.

stateVoted_for_Trump 2016Voted_for_Clinton 2016Did_Not_Vote
Pennsylvania2,970,7332,926,441 3,525,682
Source: US Census Bureau, Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2016
https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/voting-and-registration/p20-580.html

Trump won this state in 2016 with just 0.7% more votes than Hillary Clinton, or roughly 44,000 votes out of more than 6 million votes cast in Pennsylvania. 3.5 million people, including more than 500,000 young people, aged 18-24, did not vote in that election, ten times the number that could have changed the outcome of that election in Pennsylvania. Even more young people have newly turned 18 since 2016 and are thus eligible to vote in this election.

stateTrump_Won_Byunder_25_didnt_votedTurned_18_Since_2016
Pennsylvania44,292549,000 618,543
Source: US Census Bureau, Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2016, Table 4c
https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/voting-and-registration/p20-580.html

If you live in Pennsylvania, your vote is critical to our survival. Voting for a third party or not voting at all is the same is giving your vote to Trump in this state.

stateTrump_Won_ByVoted_for_SteinVoted_for_Johnson
Pennsylvania44,29249,941146,715
Source: Federal Election Commission, Election Results 2016
https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/federalelections2016.pdf

Register to vote!

stateRegistration_by_MailRegistration_OnlineRegistration_in_Person
PennsylvaniaOct. 19Oct. 19Oct. 19

Vote by mail:

stateDeadline_to_ApplyDeadline_to_MailDeadline_to_be_Received
PennsylvaniaOct. 27November 3

Vote in person:

StatePolls_open_amPolls_close_pmFind your polling place
Pennsylvania78https://www.pavoterservices.state.pa.us/pages/pollingplaceinfo.aspx
Note: Times may vary, always check locally. Source: https://ballotpedia.org/State_Poll_Opening_and_Closing_Times_(2020)

AND, you can help win this state for all of us by encouraging a friend, relative, colleague, former neighbor, or somebody else you know to vote, and to vote for our survival, at this election.

Click here for more ideas and help in convincing a friend or relative to vote.

Senate Race

There are no Senate seats up for election in Pennsylvania this year.

House Races

The best we can hope for in 2020 at the Presidential and Senate levels is to get rid of Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell so that we will at least survive the next four years. But in the medium term, we need to elect politicians who support the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, the Nuclear Ban Treaty and other real, sustainable solutions to the global threats facing us all.

Luckily, we already have over 100 such politicians in the House of Representatives. We need to make sure they get re-elected, and we need to elect more of them!

If you live in one of these US Congressional Districts, you have a progressive member of Congress to support

District 2 – Boyle

District 3 – Evans

District 4 – Dean

District 5 – Scanlon

District 8 – Cartwright