NATIONAL ELECTION RETURNS : State-by-State Election Reports of Key Races and Issues : Pennsylvania
HARRISBURG — George Bush pulled out a narrow victory over Michael S. Dukakis to take Pennsylvania’s 25 electoral votes and popular Republican Sen. John Heinz won a third term by a landslide.
In a race that was too close to call throughout the early evening hours when Bush was piling up decisive margins elsewhere, Bush took 51% of the vote to 49% for Dukakis.
Bush’s attack on his rival’s positions on gun control and abortion appeared to have helped the vice president in conservative central Pennsylvania, as well as in the traditionally Democratic northeastern region.
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