Jeff Bloodworth

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  • Nov 26, 2025
    In 2016 and 2024, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania gave Trump the White House. But it was working-class Rust Belters in blue-collar towns and small...
  • Nov 21, 2025
    “We just got killed.” Tom Eddy knows his Republicans had a tough night. The chair of the Erie County Republican Party sighed and admitted, “Republicans, for some reason, chose...
  • Nov 20, 2025
    “We just got killed.” Tom Eddy knows his Republicans had a tough night. The chair of the Erie County Republican Party sighed and admitted, “Republicans, for some...
  • Oct 28, 2025
    Jeff Bloodworth is a writer and professor of American political history at Gannon University
  • Sep 24, 2025
    Barack Obama thinks “We [America] are certainly at an inflection point.” He is right in more ways than he knows. Charlie Kirk’s murder and Donald Trump were on...
  • Sep 24, 2025
    Barack Obama thinks “We [America] are certainly at an inflection point.” He is right in more ways than he knows. Charlie Kirk’s murder and Donald Trump were on Obama’s mind at
  • Jul 9, 2025
    How do you go from 100% to dead? That is the tragic enigma which changed Jim Foote’s life. In 2004, Foote’s 15-year-old son, Trey, was diagnosed with bone cancer. After...
  • Jul 8, 2025
    How do you go from 100% to dead? That is the tragic enigma which changed Jim Foote’s life. In 2004, Foote’s 15-year-old son, Trey, was diagnosed with bone cancer. ...
  • Mar 19, 2025
    In three successive presidential cycles, Erie County has revealed itself as the state’s political bellwether. In voting for Donald Trump in 2016, Joe Biden in 2020, and then Trump...
  • Mar 18, 2025
    In three successive presidential cycles, Erie County has revealed itself as the state’s political bellwether. In voting for Donald Trump in 2016, Joe Biden in 2020, and then...