How Pennsylvania Explains the Forces Shaping the Midterms

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe New York Times says four battleground congressional districts in Pennsylvania reveal fault lines that are echoing across the country, and help explain the midterm landscape.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorFour districts explaining a whole nation is the most efficient thing Washington has ever done.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorPennsylvania is simply sharing its insights with the rest of us.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt's a pilot. Four districts get the script, and the other four hundred thirty-one get the laugh track.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFour hundred thirty-one.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorLet me finish. Those districts are not decorative, they are supporting cast, and every supporting cast deserves to feel seen by the narrative.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSupporting cast never gets the algorithm, Vera.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIf you aren't in the thumbnail, you are in the comments, and the comments are where the voters live.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo we hold the real election in four places, and everyone else watches it at home.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd the nation is renewed, with the other four hundred thirty-one districts demoted to recurring guest star.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOr canceled after one season, which is also how the internet treats most pilots.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFour hundred thirty-one districts think this is an election. It is a taping.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorBrock, is there weather in Pennsylvania, or is that also a pilot?