Pennsylvania has been trending strong blue lately: Dem Governor, other Senator Casey is a Dem who defeated a hard core conservative, Rick Santorum.
Obama won Pennsylvania 3.276 million to 2.555 million for McCain.
Even Murtha won reelection.
The Dems are promising Specter no primary challenge and lots of money for his reelection campaign plus a Chairmanship in the next Congress if he wins reelection and keeping his seniority.
The only bright side to the debacle is that, if you remove Philadelphia and the four collar counties from the PA total, the GOP won the state. That is a pretty big “IF”—but, right now, we will hold on to some GOP congressional seats.
Not much of a bright side, but ther you have it . . . .