Zito spent many years writing for the recently deceased Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, covering such blue-collar places in Western PA and Eastern OH.
“...a reporter who saw Trump’s victory coming from miles away. For several months, for outlets ranging from the liberal Atlantic to the red-blooded New York Post, Zito churned out pieces about the supposedly elusive Trump voters that the polls seem to have missed. She wrote that these people take Trump “seriously, not literally.” She wrote a piece about the many Trump signs she was seeing in Pennsylvania and Ohio. She wrote about the time Trump “won over a bar” full of undecideds and Democrats.”
A lot of people get hit on the head with apples - few discover gravity. Yeah, Zito had a leg up having lived in the area but the stuff she figured out? Pure genius.