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[below information is from Rep. Murtha's
website]
Municipalities in Pennsylvania's
12th District are listed below.
Not
sure if you are in the 12th District? The U.S. House of
Representatives provides a service that lets you determine who your
representative is. Click on the highlighted text at the beginning of
this paragraph to access the web site for this service.
Part of Allegheny County
consisting of the Township of East Deer Ward 2, Forward Ward 3 and the
Borough of Tarentum.
Part of Armstrong County
consisting of the Townships of Bethel, Burrell, Gilpin, Kiskiminetas,
Manor, North Buffalo - East, Parks, Plumcreek, South Bend and South
Buffalo District Eastern, and the Boroughs of Apollo, Elderton, Ford
City, Ford Cliff, Freeport, Kittanning, Leechburg, Manorville and
North Apollo.
Part of Cambria County
consisting of the City of Johnstown; the Townships of Adams, Barr,
Blacklick, Cambria, Conemaugh, Cresson, Croyle, East Carroll, East
Taylor, Jackson, Lower Yoder, Middle Taylor, Munster, Portage,
Richland, Stonycreek, Summerhill, Upper Yoder, Washington, West
Carroll and West Taylor; and the Boroughs of Brownstown, Carrolltown,
Cassandra, Cresson, Daisytown, Dale, East Conemaugh, Ebensburg,
Ehrenfeld, Ferndale, Franklin, Geistown, Lilly, Lorain, Nanty Glo,
Portage, Sankertown, Scalp Level, South Fork, Southmont, Susquehanna -
North, Summerhill, Vintondale, Westmont and Wilmore.
Part of Fayette County
consisting of the Cities of Connellsville Ward Ward 1, 2, 3 and 6, and
Uniontown; the Townships of Brownsville, Bullskin, Dunbar Districts 2,
3 and 4, Franklin, Georges Districts 3 and 4, German, Jefferson, Lower
Tyrone, Luzerne, Menallen, North Union Districts 1, 2, 4 and 5, Perry,
Redstone, Saltlick, South Union Districts 1 and 2, Springhill District
2, Upper Tyrone and Washington; and the Boroughs of Belle Vernon,
Brownsville, Dawson, Dunbar, Everson, Fayette City, Masontown, Newell,
Perryopolis, Point Marion and Vanderbilt.
All of Greene County.
Part of Indiana County
consisting of the Townships of Cherryhill, Pine and White Districts 1
and 2, and the Boroughs of Clymer and Indiana Districts 2 and 3.
Part of Somerset County
consisting of the Townships of Conemaugh, Jefferson, Jenner, Lincoln,
Middlecreek, Paint and Quemahoning, and the Boroughs of Benson,
Boswell, Hooversville, Jennerstown, Paint, Seven Springs, Stoystown
and Windber.
Part of Washington County
consisting of the Cities of Monongahela and Washington and the
Townships of Canton, Carroll Districts 2, 3 and 5, Chartiers Districts
3, 5, 6 and 7, East Bethlehem, Fallowfield Districts 1, 2 and 4, North
Bethlehem, North Strabane Districts 2, and 3 (only blocks 3016, 3017,
4004, 4005, 4006, 4007, 4011, 4012, 4013 and 4015 of tract 745100),
Somerset, South Strabane Districts 2, 4 and 5, Union, West Bethlehem;
and West Pike Run and the Boroughs of Allenport, Beallsville,
Bentleyville, California, Canonsburg Wards 2 and 3 (Division 1),
Centerville, Charleroi Districts 1, 3 and 4, Coal Center, Cokeburg,
Deemston, Donora, Dunlevy, East Washington District 2, Elco,
Ellsworth, Finleyville, Houston, Long Branch, Marianna, New Eagle,
North Charleroi, Roscoe, Speers, Stockdale, Twilight and West
Brownsville.
And part of Westmoreland
County consisting of the Cities of Arnold, Latrobe, Lower
Burrell, Monessen and New Kensington and the Townships of Allegheny,
Bell, Derry districts Alters, Brandenville, Cokeville, Cooperstown,
Kingston, Loyalhanna, Millwood, New Derry, Peanut, Saxman, Scalp
Level, and Simpsons, Derry, East Huntingdon District Bessemer,
Fairfield, Hempfield Districts Bovard, Hannastown and Luxor,
Loyalhanna, Mount Pleasant Districts Bridgeport, Duncan, Heccla,
Laurel Run, Mammoth, Spring Garden, United and Westmoreland, Rostraver,
Salem Districts Hugus and Mechlings, Sewickley Districts East
Herminie, Lowber, Rillton, Sewickley and West Herminie, South
Huntingdon Districts Jacobs Creek, Mineral, Port Royal, Wayne, Wyano
and Yukon, St. Clair, Unity Districts Crabtree, Dorothy, Lloydsville,
Pleasant Unity and Mutual , Upper Burrell and Washington Districts
North Washington and Paulton; and the Boroughs of Avonmore, Bolivar,
Derry, East Vandergrift, Hyde Park, Mount Pleasant, New Alexandria,
New Florence, North Belle Vernon, Oklahoma, Scottdale, Seward,
Smithton, Vandergrift, West Leechburg and West Newton.
[courtesy of
RedState, click here to read entire article:
LINK. ]
...[u]nseating an incumbent in
the House is always difficult. Unseating a 32-year incumbent is harder
still. However, Murtha may be up for a "Daschle moment" - a
high-profile defeat earned by running far to the left of one's
constituents. To start with, we should take a look at the voting
results for the counties within the 12th district for the 2004
Presidential election:
2004 Presidential voting results, counties
within Pennsylvania 12th:
Greene County:
Bush 7,786 (50%)
Kerry 7,764 (50%)
Fayette County:
Kerry 29,129 (53%)
Bush 25,045 (47%)
Washington County:
Kerry 48,225 (50%)
Bush 47,763 (50%)
Westmoreland County:
Bush 100,087 (56%)
Kerry 77,774 (44%)
Cambria County:
Bush 34,048 (51%)
Kerry 32,591 (49%)
Indiana County:
Bush 20,254 (56%)
Kerry 15,831 (44%)
Armstrong County:
Bush 18,925 (61%)
Kerry 12,025 (39%)
Overall:
Bush 253,908 (53%)
Kerry 223,339 (47%)
The counties in the district have
a clear Republican lean. Of course, the district does not contain the
entirety of these counties because of the 2000 gerrymandering, but
that gerrymandering was carried about by a Republican controlled
legislature, and the results are generally agreed to have favored
Republicans. For this reason, without having a more detailed set of
data for the voting by precincts within the 12th, I'll stick to the
assumption that Murtha's district has a Republican lean in national
elections...
This Pennsylvania district is
rural, and if it has been following national trends at all, is solidly
for strong enforcement of the borders against illegal immigration.
Unfortunately, I do not have polls available to show this, but if
rural voters in Virginia were willing to vote out incumbent town
councilmen over the issue, rural voters in Pennsylvania may be
inclined to do the same thing. And as luck would have it, Murtha voted
"nay" on HR4437, the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal
Immigration Control Act sponsored by Sensenbrenner. If Irey can
succeed in making this an issue in the campaign, it may prove a major
weakness for Murtha, especially since it seems to contradict his
stated concern for national security and ties him to the very poorly
received national illegal immigration demonstrations.
In sum, Murtha is beatable,
despite the advantages of 32 years of incumbency. On the two major
issues of the day, the war and immigration, he appears to be running
far to the left of his constituents, and now because of his national
media presence, they know about it. I have not seen any early polls
taken on the Irey-Murtha matchup so my arguments are based on
inference from other data, but I believe my assumptions can stand up
to scrutiny. This is a campaign RedState can get behind and have a
reasonable chance of success at. When the benefits are as great as
unseating a Democrat hack like Murtha, the price of tapping a few keys
to blog for Irey seems quite small!
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