The political climate in PA is a little different from that of other Northeastern States. The Philadelphia area is probably just as liberal as urban NY and New England, but there's the vast (though sparsely populated) conservative middle and the greater Pittsburgh area, where I live, which is socially conservative but also dominated by hard-core Union types, old-style democrats who haven't yet realized what their party has become.
Anyone listening on KFI Los Angeles?? Did they completely MISS the audience with that commercial just now for Barbra Streisand tickets?! Man, I nearly choked on my breakfast cereal! I thought it might be a Rush parody but it was the real blabbering Babs!
Interresting I didn't know that about the Pittsburgh area. I did about Philidelphia. I admire your tenacity, as you live there. :) I see the possibility of PA going Republican in the coming years maybe, like you said, bucking the trend of the other NE states. It could happen.