In Pennsylvania, a Pipeline Shakes up the Political Map

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🗓️ 29 October 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The reporter Eliza Griswold has long been following political campaigns in Pennsylvania. She has found that, for voters across a wide swath of the state, the thing that’s foremost on people’s minds isn’t Donald Trump but a pipeline running through their back yards. The Mariner East 2 pipeline project carries gas by-products of fracking from the Marcellus shale in west-central Pennsylvania, and carries them east, to a port where the products are shipped overseas. The Democratic governor and Republican legislature have both supported it. The opposition, too, is bipartisan. Griswold followed Danielle Friel Otten, a first-time candidate for the state Assembly, as she went door to door in Exton, Pennsylvania, campaigning against the Mariner East pipeline. Friel Otten would like to unseat her Republican opponent—and then hold her own party accountable.

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0:50.8	On today's Politics and More podcast, the New Yorker's Eliza Griswold visits Exton, Pennsylvania,
0:57.0	where a proposed natural gas pipeline through the community has become a divisive issue in local politics.
1:06.1	The midterm elections are often said to be a referendum on the presidency, and that's never
1:10.8	been more true than this year in the era of Donald Trump.
1:15.2	At the same time, no matter where you live, there are also other issues on your mind as
1:18.9	a voter, local stuff that has maybe nothing to do with whether you watch Fox or CNN or
1:24.2	even how you feel about Donald Trump.
1:27.2	Reporter Eliza Griswold has been spending a lot of time following races in the state of Pennsylvania.
1:32.1	And what she found is that for voters across a wide swath of the state,
1:37.3	the thing that's foremost on people's minds is a gas pipeline.
1:41.6	It's already under construction and it goes through a lot of people's
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