PA, Susquehanna: Romney in the lead

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The surge is spreading across America.

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2006-2010 ACS figures show about 22,000 people in PA employed in mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction. Many of these jobs will not be in the coal industry (obviously). Anyway, we can be absolutely clear about a couple of things, and that is that (much like all other old industrial regions) the coal industry in PA employs only a tiny fraction of what it used to, and that it is dubious to assume that people who work in it (or are directly dependent on it) will automatically vote as their employers would wish...