DAVID MARCUS: Bedford, Pa., has a history picking presidents. Trump's surge is talk of the town

Bedford, Pennsylvania is arsenic beauteous arsenic a representation postcard and has astir arsenic agelong an relation with the American presidency arsenic is possible, which is to say, yes, George Washington slept here. 

The screen of the Bedford Gazette said it all, arsenic I scooped it up connected Wednesday entering my beauteous 18th Century hotel, "County Preps for Upcoming Election," blared the headline, and it isn’t conscionable the county, it's the residents.

I met Carol astatine the Village News, a edifice which is aptly named. Not lone was it a newsstand backmost erstwhile specified things existed, but it is present wherever the denizens of this historical municipality stock the news, some section and national. 

Carol was connected her mode to bargain a stamp, to message her husband's elector registration. It seems helium hadn’t voted for immoderate time, but this twelvemonth helium is.

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"Is that due to the fact that helium sees this predetermination arsenic uniquely important?" I asked her.

"Maybe," she said, with the laconic charm I saw each implicit the town.

"The state is simply a business", she told me, "And we request a businessman to tally it." Needless to say, Carol supports Donald Trump.

Her friends, Joel, Scott, and Tom, who owns the joint, concurred. They consciousness ignored. And they besides consciousness that Trump won’t disregard them. That helium listens. It's what I perceive each implicit the country. And it is simply a large portion of wherefore the Real Clear Politics mean of Pennsylvania polling has Trump pulling up with a constrictive lead.

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Back astatine my hotel, the Golden Eagle Inn, wherever I climbed the steps to my country and had an existent metallic key, I met Meredith and her hubby arsenic I sat for dinner. They person a mixed governmental marriage. She’s each successful for Harris, though she admits she wishes Kamala Harris would beryllium clearer astir who she is.

Her hubby isn’t voting for Trump oregon Harris, he’ll ballot for section candidates successful their location successful Virginia, but helium can’t bring himself to enactment either apical summons dwellers connected the nationalist scene. 

Such was the lawsuit with Matt, arsenic well, a section who told me, "My archetypal precedence is my children, not politics." And earlier we formed the archetypal stone, it's worthy considering that helium doesn’t deliberation immoderate person has done overmuch to assistance him.

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But Nathan was different, helium had heard that I was successful town, and sought maine out. He had thing to accidental and helium darn good said it.

"Agriculture is much important than radical think," helium began, "multiple farmers are being squeezed out," helium told me. "We person commercialized deals that are bad, we person Bill Gates, we person the Chinese who are buying up everything," and with a flourish helium landed on, "We person farmers who are being paid not to workplace their property. Why is that?"

If either campaigner oregon their running mates have a bully reply for that, I’ve yet to perceive it.

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I’ll archer you a small thing astir the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, wherever I was calved and raised. These radical cognize their past and they attraction astir it. Every municipality has a small depository and a section story. Ever heard of the Indian Adam and Eve? Go look it up.

The radical I met successful Bedford? Their families person been present for generations, immoderate since the French and Indian War successful the 1750s. They privation answers, they privation leadership, and they are uncovering it sorely lacking.

In the 19th Century, Bedford was known for its curative springs. Ten presidents, starting with James K. Polk, took the dip astatine the section resort, and the municipality inactive brims with the charm and past of America, younger than the mountains, but older than the trees, arsenic they accidental wherever I live.

Pennsylvania is superior astir however it takes its past and its contiguous relation arsenic the cardinal plaything state.

These are the places successful Pennsylvania that volition determine the governmental aboriginal of our federation come November 5th, arsenic residents of this authorities person done since earlier determination adjacent was a nation. And portion voters person questions astir some candidates, it is evident that an excitement exists with the Trump run that Harris cannot match.

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There is anxiety, adjacent fearfulness astir wherever we are going arsenic a country, but astatine slightest from some, besides a resolute content that voting matters. That we each bash truly person a say.

Carol got her husband’s elector registration paper to the mailbox, and if determination are capable Carols to vie with the Democrats’ governmental machine, past Trump has a existent chance. But this is Pennsylvania, a spot that has changed the world, and each ballot present has to beryllium earned. 

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