NBC News has unveiled “The Deciders” which it describes as a “new hyperlocal reporting initiative featuring in-depth, on-the-ground reporting from a team of nearly three dozen journalists focused on the 2024 presidential race in seven key counties around the country.”
And Erie County is among the seven.
On NBC’s Sunday morning public affairs program, “Meet The Press,” analyst Steve Kornacki called Erie the “ultimate blue-collar swing county,” as it is located as close to Buffalo and Cleveland as it is to Pittsburgh. Barack Obama won the county by 16 points in 2012, while Donald Trump carried Erie by a pair of points just four years later. Joe Biden pulled out a one-point win in the northwestern corner of the state in 2020.
Also selected in the group were
- Maricopa County, Arizona
- Miami-Dade County, Florida
- Gwinnett County, Georgia
- Kent County, Michigan
- Washoe County, Nevada
- Dane County, Wisconsin
NBC News will work with local NBC affiliates in those counties. Reporting from “The Deciders” will appear across all NBCUniversal News Group platforms, including NBC News, NBC News NOW, and NBCNews.com.
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Erie, Northampton and Bucks are the counties to watch in PA. Three very different counties, but swing counties nonetheless
All voters are The Deciders in a true democracy. But then the anti-democratic Electoral College often takes that away. Time to abolish the Electoral College. One person, one vote. Let the actual vote winner win.
Hmm, the person who gets the most votes wins. Now there’s a novel idea.
Hmm, the person who gets the most votes wins the election. Now there’s a novel idea.
The United States is not a true democracy, it is a constitutional republic.