State's political color may change

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Montgomery County win by Dems would show east going blue
Sunday, November 04, 2007
By James O'Toole, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

For 140 years, the GOP has held an unbroken majority on the three-member board.Democrats claim that's about to change.

If their well-funded challenge succeeds Tuesday, it would make local history, but more broadly, it could affirm a voting trend that could transform Pennsylvania from a classic swing state in state and national elections to one with a deepening shade of blue.
"This could be a transformative election," said Terry Madonna, a pollster and analyst of state politics at Franklin and Marshall College. "This is a genuine test of whether the suburbs are going to trend Democratic. They don't have the kind of patronage they once did, but in actual and symbolic terms they are seats of power."

In an essay earlier this year, Mr. Madonna wrote: "The loss of the suburbs by the Republican Party would likely mean that Pennsylvania's role as a critical swing state would end abruptly."

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