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How Eric Holder failed Salena Zito © Drew Angerer/Getty Images When Eric Holder announced the program in 2017, it marked the first time in over a decade that Washington-based Democrats acknowledged how much power their party had lost in the redistricting process in state legislative chambers. MOUNT LEBANON, Pennsylvania — Eric Holder had it all: money, power, prestige, and a new project that promised to deliver Democrats power to control the redistricting process. The media played their part as well, hyping up the former Obama-era attorney general's project with an abunda...

The state will drop from 18 to 17 seats for the 2022 elections. Since peaking at 36 in 1910, Pennsylvania has lost U.S. House seats following every census Pennsylvania has maintained a relatively steady population of about 12.7 million over the last 10 years, but it has been outpaced by growing states such as Florida, Colorado, Montana, North Carolina, Montana and Oregon, which will gain one seat, and Texas, which will gain two seats. “This is not a surprise,” said Kris Kanthak, a University of Pittsburgh political science professor. “We’re older. We’re not getting quite as ma...

By rob portman that portman got 70% of the vote in 2004. he got within three. the republicans held him off and thought they had found the formula. in 2006, they lost the house and in 2010, the democrats held with mark critz in a special electioning in pennsylvania. the see the vacated by john murtha and thought they figured it out to hold the blue collar seats. when you got to the general in 2010, they got an ni layed. be cautious there. the other thing this does affect the future democratic debate is it's a reminder that the southern suburbs are different. this is a white collar well educated...

Scramble the whole thing up with pennsylvania. the fact is they're close in pennsylvania, but it's lucy and the football close. >> there's a lot of work to be done by the democrats in southeastern pennsylvania. >> they do have work to do in western pennsylvania. there's a whole bunch of democratic -- your friend mark critz is in big trouble. >> i don't want to start a fight right now. thank you, chuck todd and john heilemann. the president gets a bear hug from mitt romney's keynote speaker. he's quite a bear. he looks like a man in charge. everybody is reminded romney wanted to outsource fem...

Virginia. now -- >> pennsylvania, they got a chance there? yes. is it likely? >> feels like they're looking for more paths and more opportunities. they basically failed to expand the map early. they're hoping maybe hope upon hope that they steal a state late, that somehow they could scramble the whole thing up with pennsylvania. the fact is they're close in pennsylvania, but it's lucy and the football close. >> there's a lot of work to be done by the democrats in southeastern pennsylvania. >> they do have work to do in western pennsylvania. there's a whole bunch of democratic -- your friend ma...