If Donald Trump doesn’t carry Pennsylvania, his chances of becoming president reach the vanishing point. If any recently Democratic state should be hospitable to Trump, Pennsylvania is it with the fifth-oldest population in the country (Trump is strongest with older voters) and an electorate in which white voters form a slightly larger share than the national average. Key to Clinton’s leads in all the recent surveys: the aversion of women to Trump. For now, he’s in deep trouble in a place that, demographically, ought to be a Trumpian promised land. She can’t vote for Clinton, she said, but added: “My social views are very liberal.

Source: Washington Post August 10, 2016 23:45 UTC