Wisconsin State Journal, 10/17/2020
10/14/2020 update, "Johnstown PA UPDATE: Steroids send Donald Trump into a spin cycle of desperation, pleads with suburban housewives of Daisytown", starts here.
USA Today, 10/13/2020
Johnstown ranks third in the video "The Ten Worst Cities in Pennsylvania Explained". The voiceover is cheerily ironic and bitingly humorous ("Even people in Altoona know this place is a pit.")
Daisytown has lost 30% of its population since 1980 -- from 421 to 294.
Original 10/13/2020 post, GET ME REWRITE: Philadelphia Inquirer reporters suggest that election could be decided in a Pennsylvania town that has lost 71% of its population, starts here.
It took 3 reporters to write this ludicrous lede.
The occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue increasingly looks as if it could be decided by voters in Pennsylvania towns like this one.
Like Johnstown, PA, which has lost 71% of its population since its 1920 peak, which makes it the 3rd fastest shrinking city in the US. Which is why MAGA has great appeal here.
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