Pennsylvania

If you add up the number of Pennsylvanians on Medicare, 2.9M, and Medicaid, 3.1M, that is nearly half the state's total population. Add in the kids on CHIP and it gets even closer to half.

In the link to the Trib story about Medicare/Medicaid, there's an embedded link to the Garin-Hart poll. The poll shows overwhelming opposition to the Trump budget blueprint just passed by the House Rs. Even Trump voters hate it.

Think about the crowds Bernie is drawing at his rallies. The Garin-Hart poll shows why. If Dems could manage to find a firebrand economic populist like Bernie to run in one or both of these districts, Thompson and Joyce could be in real reelection trouble. That's the bind they're in