terry madonna in harrisburg. good morning. caller: hello -- my comment is that i think obama should be impeached for allowing the ambassador and seal, after requesting help three times, being denied, told to stand down -- you cannot tommy the president did not know about it. he is dancing around this issue, and i think it should be made a national issue and i am very disappointed in him and hillary clinton, her being a mother and a woman. i think it is disgusting. host: if you had a chance to ask the president a question on this issue, what would you ask him? caller: why did you have the skies murdered? that would be my question. -- those guys murder? why did he not sent up there when he could? host: we'll get a response -- terry madonna on this issue generally and also on foreign policy, how that is playing out. guest: let's -- there is no doubt the president had a pretty substantially on foreign policy in the polls that have been done. that lead has narrowed in the polls a look at just last week on the foreign policy questio

i brought up with terry madonna. pennsylvania is divided in the years, there has been a pattern two terms followed by a democratic governor followed by a republican governor. why is the state so evenly divided when it comes to statewide officeholders? coincidence. we have partisanship in pennsylvania. no question about that. our last election showed how big the swing was when we were able to win the house and the state senate. imagine winning five congressmen in one election. only one other state did that. that was new york. 13 will be republican. they call pennsylvania a blue state. year. as mike pointed out -- and i'm sure josh worries about the mikes of the country -- barack obama claims people like him cling to their guns and their bible. he said if you are in a coal mine that you might as well sell it, you are going to go pennsylvania. couple of days. host: josh shapiro, we go back to the pattern of two term democrats and two term republicans. the politics of your state? guest: we are a moderate state. we want t

terry madonna, since 1988, pennsylvania has gone democratic. last time they vote republican was for george herbert walker bush. why? guest: 2 when the suburban voters, as i pointed out a moment ago, they come out of philadelphia with a huge edge and that is the largest municipality in the state with a heavy concentration of democrats. if you win philadelphia in the out of thet's say southeast by 650,000 votes, it's pretty difficult to overcome that edge in other parts of the stage even if republicans win the infamous "t" we referred to. the other thing to remember about pennsylvania is that it is dominated by one television market. there are six tv markets in the state, but philadelphia covers 40% of the voters in the state. all of delaware and the southern half of new jersey. in order to be effective in the television advertising business, you have to really advertise in the philadelphia television market which goes all the way up to lehigh valley, way out into the western area moving closer to the susquehanna river. where i live just east of

we are joined by terry madonna. that is followed by a round table look at the politics of the state with the chair of the pennsylvania republican party, and the chairman of the montgomery county board of commissioners. "washington journal," with your calls, tweets, and emialails,

today the spotlight as the keystone state and pennsylvania enjoy nestor in harrisburg is terry madonna. he's the director of franklin and marshall college. thanks famous for being with us. let me begin with a broad overview of the political geography of pennsylvania and the comparison between east and west in your state. just goes yeah, first of all, like in a battleground state, pennsylvania has large parts bad in large part that are blue. if we just take a look at the western part of the state, it's the southwest in particular. if you go into the pittsburgh area and the counties surrounding it are, democratic voter registration, once you get the pittsburgh metropolitan area, which is democratic, you run into what we call the old mining and miltown areas, where coal and steel and lead in paint and glass and all of those industries that the pennsylvania economy dominated, particularly steel and coal. over the course of 40 years after world war ii, the industries went away, the economy suffered severely. the voters were typically working class men and women, roman catholic and religion

we are joined by terry madonna. that is followed by a round table look at

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