As a matter of fact, it was James Carville who said, “Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.”
the Appalachia region has reason to swing to JSM.
Polls have the electoral votes of Ohio(20), Pennsylvania(21), & Virgina(13) leaning to BHO.
If these 54 electoral votes swing to JSM then he will most likely win it; and that can happen because Barack Dumbo Obama deeply insulted the whole region by pejoratively calling them "bitter clingers".