Ohio and Pennsylvania voters aren’t reading from their assigned scripts – By Steve Inskeep (NPR) / Oct 26, 2022
Voters in two districts have a chance to decide control of Congress this fall. They’re inundated with ads and speeches. Yet interviews in those districts in Ohio and Pennsylvania found many voters not necessarily thinking through the issues as their parties would prefer.
Some Democrats voiced concerns about crime and inflation — issues Republicans highlight. Abortion rights supporters are motivated by a Supreme Court ruling — but so are abortion opponents. Republicans prepared to vote even as some talked of a successor to former President Trump, or criticized the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
NPR’s Morning Edition visited these two districts because each has a hotly contested House seat — and is in a state with a close Senate race.
The Senate candidates are all distinctive: In Pennsylvania, a former small-city mayor and lieutenant governor (John Fetterman) faces a TV host (Mehmet Oz); in Ohio, a writer and venture capitalist (J.D. Vance) contends against an old-style Rust Belt Democrat (Tim Ryan).
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