County Map notes

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A note about Western PA.

The Mon Valley and the Southwest would go extremely for Al, being a bastion of old labor and populism. I could see Greene, Washington, Fayette all going strongly for Al and Westmoreland would be a two-way race between Al and KEmp, KEmp winning the suburban areas around Murrysville and Greensburg.

Allegheny would be split between all three with KEmperor winning the suburban areas in the North Hills, some of the South Hills, Monroeville, and Robinson Township, Lewis would do well in Squirrel (sp?) Hill and Oakland, basically he would win the Jewish vote and the College Vote, while the City and most of the river towns, like Homestead, Sharpsburg, Bellevue, and Ambridge, would be strong Al territory.

Butler County would be close but KEmperor would probably win it due to the large, conservative, suburban area around Cranberry. KEmperor would also do well around the Grove City area. Al's best areas would be in Butler proper and in some of the smaller towns. Lewis would do somewhat well in college towns like Slippery Rock but wouldn't have too much of a following. Lewis probably wont get over 12% in Butler County.

Beaver County would be Al land. Al would do well almost everywhere but his best areas would be Beaver, Beaver Falls, Rochester, and Big Beaver. KEmp would do better in Aliquippa and in the areas closer to the city, the suburbs that have stretched into Southern Beaver County. Otherwise all other major areas would go to Al except possibly one might go towards Lewis, although I don't know what. Lewis probably wouldn't crack 10% in Beaver County.

Once you start to get away from the rivers and more towards the rural farm country I could see that as being very pro-KEmp although Armstrong, Indiana, and Franklin have a possibility of voting Al. Crawford would probably be close because of Meadville and Erie would go very strongly for Al.

The only county is Western PA where I could invision Lewis winning is Centre County because of Penn State but that would really rely on voter turnout.

Al would probably win: Greene, Washington, Fayette, Beaver, Crawford and Erie. Possibly Franklin, Armstrong and Indiana.

KEmp would win every other county except for Centre although, as I said above, Franklin, Armstrong and Indiana would be very close.

Centre is the only county I can see going for Lewis. The only real area that I can't predict is the T. Would it vote for an Atheist or a Populist? I really do not know.