The road to majority control of the U.S. House of Representatives has run straight though Pennsylvania in recent years, as congressional districts have changed hands in a state more purple than red or blue.
This year party strategists are narrowing their sights on swing districts that include the western pickups-and-Steelers country, the taverns and churches of the northeastern coal regions and the densely populated suburbs west of Philadelphia that contain a mother lode of socially liberal but fiscally conservative voters.
















