Pennsylvania Is the Swing State That Matters in November

Pennsylvania is haunted by its many claims to historical distinction. Its largest metropolis was the "workshop of the world" but remains America's poorest big city. Its south-central farms and northeastern mountains boast the richest soil and coal veins, respectively, but sterile town-like developments and mammoth warehouses now dominate the land. And its defining steel company, which built America's skyscrapers and ships, could be ultimately acquired by a Japanese corporation.