PA-17/Susquehanna: Safe D

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Holden has a massive personal vote in parts of the district, especially Schuylkill County. He's a great campaigner and constituency rep.

Yeah, Schuylkill votes for him pretty much monolithically.

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Odd kind of place whose voting patterns I don't understand.

That's because the district is a failed gerrymander So the boundaries twice illogical

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I think the coal industry died out earlier there than elsewhere.

I think it may actually have been later; there are a few proper mines still open, or at least there were a few years ago. Maybe they've gone now. Most of the rest of the anthracite coalfield closed in the 50s and 60s. The county is actually plurality Republican by registration, which is unusual for such a place.