How Pennsylvania will be won. The POLITICO Battleground States polling average is a calculation of the most recent public polling in 11 swing states: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Erdrich (pronounced air-drik) was the first of seven children born to Ralph and Rita Erdrich. Born on June 7, 1954, in Little Falls, Minnesota, she was raised in Wahpeton, North Dakota. Her mother, of Ojibwe descent, was born on the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Reservation while her father was of German ancestry.
During the Civil War she served as Superintendent of United States Army Nurses. Dorothea (as a child called Dolly) was born in Hampden, Maine, the first of three children of Joseph and Mary (Bigelow) Dix. Her mother was listless and self-absorbed. Her father was a book dealer and an active Methodist, perhaps a lay minister.