The Trail Less Traveled visits Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, a traditional Republican stronghold in the heart of Amish country, to talk to Democrats (the ones we could find, anyway), about the April 22 primary.

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LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — Deep in the heart of this Republican bastion, amid fields tended to by generations of conservative farmers, many of them Amish or Mennonite, there is a palpable stir of excitement among Democrats, despite being outnumbered as they are.

On the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, activists had a full slate of anti-war protests planned around the nation's capitol. 'The Trail Less Traveled' caught up with a group of DC-area activists in Downtown Washington. While none of the activists were too keen on the current U.S. president, there wasn't much excitement for the three remaining candidates: Sens. Barack Obama, John McCain and Hillary Clinton.

The Trail Less Traveled went to Canonsburg, PA, home of crooner Perry Como, where former president Bill Clinton campaigned for his wife to a packed room of enthusiastic supporters.

CANONSBURG, Pa. — It could have been a political rally in any red-blooded Republican stronghold in the country.

More than 150 people donned red, white and blue campaign buttons and stickers and sat in folding chairs crammed under an electronic Bingo scoreboard at the senior citizens’ center here on Tuesday. Some arrived hours in advance to get close to the podium.

CANONSBURG, Pa. — New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will win the majority of popular votes and the Democratic presidential nomination “if she gets a big victory in Pennsylvania,” former President Bill Clinton told a packed senior center in this borough south of Pittsburgh Tuesday.

And if Canonsburg is any indication, the New York senator is on track to do very well in the Keystone State.

For some folks on the west side of this relic of industrialism, hope packed up and left town with the factories decades ago. For others, it departed in the last few years, when Dairy Queen, McDonald’s, Burger King and even Family Dollar shuttered their doors and drive-thru windows.

If Barack Obama comes up short in his bid to upset Hillary Rodham Clinton in today’s Democratic presidential primary in Ohio, it may be because his message of hope and change — so resonant in upper- and middle-income communities — sounds dissonant to some voters in economically depressed corners of this state.

Westerville, Ohio – Here in the shadow of the sprawling, upscale Easton Town Center mall, it is easy to forget that Ohio is supposed to embody an ailing national economy.

The new Cadillac and Mercedes dealerships at one entrance of the mall give way to a mammoth complex replete with tony retailers like Henri Bendel, Restoration Hardware and the Apple store, as well as pricey restaurants with hour-long Saturday night lines like the ones at McCormick & Schmick’s, The Cheesecake Factory and P.F. Chang’s.

There’s even a Pottery Barn for kids.

CLEVELAND -- Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., left the Hampton Inn here this morning on a mission for Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign a day before the critical Ohio primary. Engel, who traversed Ohio with Clinton yesterday, will spend the day courting Jewish voters at community centers and schools in the Cleveland area. "People know her. She's got a record on Israel," Engel said. Engel predicted Clinton will win Ohio Tuesday, but said, at odds with most analysts, that she does not need to capture both Ohio and Texas to continue her campaign. "Not at all," he said. A victory in Ohio alone would create the perception that she has halted the momentum Barack Obama built over the last month. "Then, I think she's back," he said.

CQ Politics reporter Jon Allen and videographer Andrew Satter send a video postcard from the road as they head to Ohio to cover the March 4, 2008 Democratic and Republican primaries.