Anecdotally speaking, I just dropped my daughter off at college and western PA was littered with Trump signs, bumper stickers and billboards all along the PA Turnpike as well as 81 and into 78. Doesn’t mean a whole lot in terms of votes but nobody was shy about their support for Trump.
I also saw several AmishPAC billboards for Trump. I suspect that’s a voter group that doesn’t often vote.
Turnpike is through mostly rural PA, so Republican always have support there.. How you win PA as a D is pretty much you have to win the Philly area HUGE... to overwhelm the rest of the state.. Harrisburg and Pitt also go D, but the populations are far less and don’t do so by such large margins..
Philly is the key to a D win in PA... and while I am not the ground there, what has been getting back to me is Hillary is not showing remotely the kind of support there that she needs to win... Add this to the enthusiasm throughout the rest of the state to vote Trump.. and I really don’t see how she has a chance in hell here...
I witnessed the lowevering of support for Obama in 12, but I missed that Romney was actually getting lower support that McCain... Had Romney just managed to get the voters to show up that McCain did 4 years earlier, the entire race would have been different.
What if you want to read the tea leaves in PA, its Philly to watch... Trump will get very solid support across the rest of the state with a LOT of enthusiasm... If Hillary isn’t carrying the PHilly area huge, and since there is absolutely ZERO enthusiasm for her anywhere, I am hard pressed to believe she will carry PA... and I don’t think it will be a nailbiter in PA either, but a very solid Trump win.
Also, its only been in the last week or two that Trump ads have really started to play in PA at least, not sure about OHIO.
There were a few just touchy feely ones running maybe a month ago, but just the last few weeks have seen Trump really take to the airways.
Hillary has dropped 100 Million or more in PA, OH, FL etc.... and hasn’t broken out and can’t... she’s tapped out there is nothing left for her to get...
“Anecdotally speaking....”
Oh, you’re not the only one to notice:
http://nypost.com/2016/08/22/stumped-by-trumps-success-take-a-drive-outside-us-cities/